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The Copserrotive Party chairman. Brian Mawhin- ney, has infini- ated prO'Euro- pean MPs . by ordering the caneeUiatidit of a conference being oxganised by the party’s ME3*s, because he fears it could be a magnet fbr Euro-sceptte oitlcdsi^
The Central OfIice-sp6n>. sored ccmference was being planned In July iQr Tom Spen- cer, the chflirmnn of the Coii- servatives in ibe Euitqpean ParllamenL'SpealDBrs were to have included mEmbersofitlfe Cabinet. Qn&jnet^asiz^y frustrated pro-Eurpp^^l^' described^lhe actl<m ^as an-] oth^ act df appeascanoit’’'.
It is now that Central Office will onty allow the eoJly far more pao-Ebrcgtean Tory MEPs to hold a small scale semhiwr with bustness- men on tife future oTEurope. The IV»y MEPs h^ a sc^e European con- ference last year ad^esraed by Leon Brittan, the fbrmer Cab- inet minister and vice-pr^ dent of the Commission. How- ever. Mr Spencer had been pluming a more prestigous event this year In London ac Birmingham, but Mr Ma- whinney .cancelled - the project ■
. The timing of tiae cancella- tion could not be worse Ibr pro-Europeans since their ri^^ on the party*s increas- ingly-confident Eumsceptic wing are determined to ex- ploit public canfusion over the beef crisis to push John Major into a irreversibly anti- EU stance in time for the elec- tion carr^ign.
Yesterday party officials gave discreet endorsohent to weekend reports that, the Prime Minister had privately been - so angiy witt* his EU colleagues tar fhelr lack of .support over British beet ex- ports that he r^ezred to them as‘*abunchafsfaltsi.” - mtb the Dally yes-
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Fleet Street to abandon a Ma-
jmite loya^ line in fevour of a Buro^beptic >™npaign, one leading sc^dle, lain Dunican- fimifh, Nbzman T^btifs suo^ cessor in Chingford, will today test the waters by laundung a Commozts bill under the lO minute rule.
Backed by John Bedvnxtd and lip to 100 coUeagues. the bill — Trtiich stands little
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New-sehool option for boy in strike row
Her aizn, she said, was to be the queen of all our hearts. But yesterday the Princess of Wales- was branded an ace at aelf-publio- after she took her' role a little too literally.
Trailed by televisiCHi cm- eras, ch«» watched as Rr^essor Sir Mi^ Yacoub pexftem^
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Education omciais wlD today meet the parents of a violent 13- yearH>Id boy In an «Bbrt to prevent a strike by teach- ers who refuse to Imve him in.class.
' Yesterday Richard Wild- ing was back at Glaisdale school Ih Nottfn^bam after an app^ pandl rejected ‘the 'decisSoii of the head teacher and governors to expel him for violeait and 'disruptive behaviour. Twenty tmchers, members of die Nadomal AssociatiOfii. of Schoolmasters Union o£ Womlen Teechms, are pre- paring 4(n *wa«Mnnito strike from Ariday.
NbtdnghoBiAire ednca- tion -antbority said of today’s meeting: “It is lipped that an accomzzioda- tkm can be found which will satisfy all paired and - avoid the teachers following through their threat”
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Ihe boy bas been inr' vDlved in more than 30 inci- dents and been suspended four times since November. Ibe union demanded' tbat- he be taziglit at a spedal unit, or teadbiers and other
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Rita Ftnading insisted her son should stay at the sebooL ^It is disgusdiig to strike over my son. It has an . been blown up out of pcopordoin. Richazti -is not as bed as they make out, and If he is given the xl^t
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mainstream schooling.” Richard said be would be unhs^i^ if he was frwned to leave Glaisdale School. “It’s not ihir,.theyfre taking It out on ibe othw kids and
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Gillian Shephard, the Education Secretary, prom- ised measures to tighten school discipline. She blamed the Labonr-rnn education authority, as the Opposition accused her of using the case as a *^mnoke- screen for the failure of 17 years of Tory government to address the problems of school dfedpline**.
Mis Shephard’s measures include making parents sign np to a schozd’s disci- pline policies before a chQd is admitted. Schools would be given pow«s to detain pupils as a punishment and more flesibiUly to suspend minily pupils.
The number of children expelled in England has risea frrom ll,ooo In 1993/ 94 to an estimated 15.000 this year. Pressures to achieve good exam results and rising class sixes have been blamed.
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Birmingham Six ‘suffered irreversible traumas’
Dawld RaUster
The Birmingham Six. who were released on aigieal in 1991 alter 16 years in prison for the 1974 IRA pub bombings, suf- fered irreversible mental trauma as severe as bznin- damagBd accident victims, ac- cording to a leading medic.*d expert
The investigation info their zziental state was commis- siozied by their lawyers from Adrian Grounds, a psychia- trist from the Institute of Criminolog>' at Cambridge.
Gareth Peirce, the solicitor for five of the men, said yes- terday: The Home Office has coziducted no sclentlflc inves- tigation into the effects of wrongful imprisonment on aziyozie.
’“They all sufibred irrevers- ible psychological daiziage but to a d^ree [Dr Grounds} had not observed before, except in people who had suffered brain damagp and tiuuina from serious accidents.”
Dr Grounds, who is also a consultant forensic psychia- trist at Addenbrookes Hospi- tal. said yest^ay he saw four of the Bizmingham Six and one from the Guildford Four. ‘'They all had been sev- erely traumatised by their ex- periences. This was not wbat I expected,” he told The GuaitiJan.
'*Tbree years after release, they were suffering from pei> sitent and disabling post-trau- matlc stress syndromes.
“Enduring personality change fidlowing catastro{duc experience Is a recognised psychiatric disorder that can follow chrMiic trauma. They aU bad this condition to a very disabling degree.
"Emotional estrangement from others and profiwd dif- flcnlties in copix^ with close relatioziAips were particu- larly marked. It often znade them impossible to live with. “TheBe are sizzular clinical
symptoms uf lirain-<liimngiMl people. 1 ha\’e found the same in the victims of wnr Crum's nnd other people wiMi iKk.i- trnumatic stress di>m‘dL>r.''
Dr Grounds' work, based on extensive intendews with the men and tboir faniilit-s, was submitted to the Home Oll'ioi- as part of the men's cL'iim.s for compensation. Tlielr lawyers are to scriz an early meeting with the Gox’enunent's com- pensation assessor about what they believe are inade- quate ffnal offers. One of the six. Gerry Hunter, has still not been given a definitive assessment
He has claimed nearly £1.5 million in general damages and for pecuniary loss. The other five have been offered between about £230,000 and £316.000.
Some Tory MPs said yester- day that the six should not have been given a penny.
Assessment of damages for miscarriages of justice are made bj* Sir David Calcutt, QC. He was appointed by the Hmne Office under the 1985 Criminal Justice Act but there are no written criteria for his calculations. While ministers approve In princi- ple the payment of compensa- tion. he is left to his own de- vices to calculate the figtfres. -
A Home Office ^kesman said: ‘'Hiere is no formula for working these things out. We eiqpect him to arrive at a fair assessment”
Sir David has still to final- ise oObrs for the Guildford Four, seven years after they were also released on appeal from life sentences for pub bconbings in 1974. Gerry Con- Ion, one of the Four, m^e his submission three years ago.
Ivan Geffen, Mr Hunter's solicitor, said: ‘The assessor has to look at destruction oS flaznily life, loss of earnings and pensioi and general suT fering. Our couzisel put in a claim which be thought has very hard-headed and modest turn to page 2, column 3
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MPs taken with a pinch of sait ,
Simon Hoggart
ONCE a month, fw just 10 minutes. have the chance to ask ques> tions about a topic of over- whelming interest and impor- tance — themselves. TTielr queries are addressed toiUaii Betth. die Liberal Democrat MP who answers on behalf of the House of Commons Commtesion.
MrBeith Is a mild man with an obligine manner, thou^ heisatoughie Inside— likea bank clerk, with attitude. Sir Clement Freud used to sug- gest that he had a secret life as the Yorkshire Ripper, thoi^ of course this was complete nonsense.
Nick Ainger (Lab. Pem- broke) said he had heard there might be a plan to charge people ES a head to tour the Houses of Parliament. He was “horrifled” to think school- chUdren might havetofozk out this sum.
It is an article offhith among MPs that touring the House will give our dilldren an abiding Calth In our democ- racy. Frankly, a glimpse of the social inadequates, time-serv- ers, grotesques and general misfits — that's just the Cabi- net would make any reason- able chUd prefer government throu^ divining goats' entraUs.
However. Mr Ainger also thought there ought to be ca- tering provision for tourists in Westminster Hall, so that weary visitors could have “a cup of tea and a sandwleb". This idea has caused some controversy, since Westmin- ster Hall is perhaps the most thunderously hlste^c build- ing in the country. Among the unfortunates tried there (the execution was pre-arranged In those days but you always got a fair trial Jlrst) were St Thomas More and Mel Gibson in his earlier incarnation as William Wallace.
So the heritage industry could easily cash in with the Man for all Seasonings buiger
First night
bar and the Bra vaheart Indi- vidual Portion Pizzeria. Mr Belth, however, seemed dis- missive of all these plans.
Gwyneth Dunwoody (Lab, Crewe and Nantwich) paused fora tribute to the Seijeant at Arms who, like William Wal- lace, Is a fictionalised figiiie fixun our historical past dressed in a ludicrous over- the-ttq) costume, though withr out the blue paint down his nose.
"The Seijeant at Anns has a great cross tohear." she “there really are some intoler- able Membets of Parliament ... and he actually deals with us very kindly.”
Atflrst 1 assumed that Mrs Dunwoody had misundei> stood tiie purpose parlia- mentary ah«» Qiay
have fbou^ttbat come the La hour government the Ser- jeant might give her a job. However. I soon reali^ that she is one of a fine, dying breed: MPs who like being of- fensive about other ME^ for die pure joy of it
Aim Clv^ (Lab. Cynon Valley) rai^ a resd scandal: staff in the Members’ Dining Room used to have stools so they could take the wel^t off their feet between courses. These have been removed, be- cause the catering manager thought the sightof wait- resses resting was “un-
Mr Beith wrigi^ed out of that one; since *hia mean-spir- ited decision (and what if young ladies were invited In- stead to sit on Members* knees instead?) affected staff in only one restaurant, it did not apply to all waitpersoos, and so did not fell under the com- mission's remlL
John Marshall (C, Hendon S) closed the argument down. Was it the case that some members of the catering staff, he asked with unconcealed outrage, actually earned more than MPs? “Yes," said Mr Belth.
We used to have a femily gaiM of inventing dishes which sounded almost all right but were truly off-put- ting. “Avocado whaDcs” was one. Mike Leighhad the same Idea in his film Life Is Sweet, in which the hero opens a res- taurant that fells, serving likesof “liver in lager".
But this Is the equivalent of what MPs serve us every day. Of course the catering idaff de- serve more.
Hard woman, hard act, slightly scary
Bob Flynn
Marfa McKee
The Arches. Glasgow
IN 'ITIE middle of a parade of new American-Canadian pop princesses — Alanis Morissette was in town the ni^t before, with kd lang wafting in la ter — Marta McKee appeared in a venue disturbingly like something out of Terr>' Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys. The Arches' vaulted caverns are covered with air ducts and its recesses tremble with the Central Station trains roUing overhead.
Somehow the setting was appropriate for McKee in her black dress, diamante jewel- lery and high-coloured make- up, offset by astrapped-oR gui- tar like a road movie dira. Enjoying acidic exchanges with a raucous audience, one of the most under-rated voices of new female rock blasted the cat-calling males with; 'T know, I know, get your tits out." This is the singer Court- ney Love would like to be.
Here is the girl who was the l6-year-old. timber-felling voice of Lone Star long before Alanis Morissette came out of Canada, who wentsoloand topped the charts with I990's Show Me Heaven and didn't care. Instead of foUowing the yellow brick road to power pop smrdom. she bought a house in Dublin with the royalties and stayed there for years before returning to the swamp roots of .-American music.
They predicted she would be the next Cher, but McKee eschewed bare-buttocked pop balladeering and reacted rio- lently against the sex suren body exposures Of Madonna.
The last Ome she visited Brit- ain she wore Oxfam clothes and no make-up, while deliv- ering concerts boiling with a natural sensuality.
So. instead of the stadia she is underneath The Arches, reducing men to slavering, pubescent boys. The irony of the shouted request (male) for Like A Virgin was not lost on McKee, who still looks as if she would be happier shooting out the porch li^ts and kick- ing the boys from the trees.
No Madonna covers, hut a stunning display from an art- ist trying to Join up a]l the pa^ of .^erican music, from poignant bluesy ballads to spitting punkish rock. When she sings she lets go com- pletely. stamping her feet and shivering with emotion, tbe tempestuous voice ricoi^t- ing off the walls.
If Tom Waits and RickiLee Jones had had a daughter, this would be her. and Panic Beach, a Waits-styleepic was a mesmeric elegy with McKee using a vocal switch-back emotions and tones. Breathe, an unusually gentle love song, had the crowd in awed silence, the delivery so anguished and poised that foe song betmne a hymn that was almost scary. With her guitar, McKee scrajied. wa Ued and battered out chiuiks of feedback, her \’oice surfing over the noise.
Absolutely Barking Stars and Scar Lover, from her new album, extended into sonic charges of guitar and voice, love songs on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The furi- ous grandeur of McKee’s voice has rarely been captured on record, but do not miM foe concerts, for this is one of the most bewitching American singers around.
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“I use my own body because that’s where I live” — unlike a long line of artists who preferred to use women^ bodies. Bea Campbell on Gormley*s Angel
Talk of counter-action rings hollow as ministers prepare to acpept phae^ liftihg of EU export ban
Major to retreat On
John Palmar in LummlMing and Miehael Whito
The British govern- ment is braced to accept a phased lift- ing of foe European line's -worldwlile ban oa British beef exports, tn a striking switch of tactics* fit)m its original danand for an immediate and total removal of ttie embargo.. . Despite sabre-rattling
among Euro4c^caI Conser- vative MPs at Weetminster, and a reluctance by Downing Street to quell foe foreats of eounter-actlbn in the media, few Tories, inclnding John. Redwood, believe the Govern- ment will take illegal action.
Tbe Foreign Secretary, Mal- colm Rlfkind, last night dis- tanced hims^ from reports that foe Government is ready to -retaliate with trade sanc- tions, or by wtfoolding Brit- aiA's £800milUoD monthly budget contribution, if the ^baA is not rapidly removed.
.“We should not say any- wfr. would not be ready tolUIly carry out;*' Mr RifUnd saU ^ter a meeting of SU for- eign ministers In Lusem- botirg. “We must be sure the IgnguagB we use is sober and
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‘fnie best way to reston confidence is for governments throughout Eurape to act <m the. basis of the medical evi- dftnce. ai^ not on foe basfe of emotion,” Rifoisd said on
arrival in Luxmnbourg. “If that couldn't be delivered, in- evitably consideration would be given to other options. But that is not tbe best solution.”
He said many ED forei^ ministers, as well as the Bux> peon Ccanmlssion president Jacques Santar, had said tiiey would do their, best to restore confidence in British beef.
Privately. EU officials warned that illegal retaltation would prove counter-produc- tive, while in foe Brit- ish camp point out that eves the “empty chair" option — ' tiM only legal pretest ^sture — would rapid^ backfire.
I7». extent to vtiiich foe ED'S ban will be eased in tbe near future will become clearer after a meeting in
Brussels today between foe ferm minisfer, Douglas Bogs, and the agricttlture coirnnls- atraer, fYanz Flsriilm'. . Mr Hogg will insist there is no scientific evidence -for con- tinuing foe ban, and he recall Mr .Fischldr's oiira rwsdiness toeatBritishbe^ 'But with the prospeiitis d£ a toia) lifting of the ban remote, the Government appears Rady to consider mteriin measures; such as. the removal of foe ban Zbom beef on grass, as well as from sports of cosmetfo and other pharmaceutical products made from b^.
Any lifting of the. ban fima high quality, grass-fed beef producers would be partico- lariy. welcome in Scotland and
Norfoam Irelm^Vwhm foe. incidenee.of BSE has beoi fer lower foan.ln England.
“We are' not -tanring 'here about ban ^ m a regloDal ,bew, .--because- we \vant foe UE- case considered as a whole. '^' ona 'British saoreesaid.' ^’Bnt'.lt mi^xt be pd^ble fo idisca8a-;otiitf - in- teilffl steps, -sucfo a&r«)ovfaig grass-fed'b^from the'ban at .ahaarlFstage.'" • . . .
Alfoou^ the final decision will (je taken by vetinary. ex- pots-andEU form ministers, few EU governments are ready -tO' bads. a~ radical or rapid removal of the to^ baiL ffor were foe ofoer EU trimipn ministers' in L'uxem- bouig Inyaassed by headlines, in some British newspapss,.
I su^esting ' foat ‘ John * Major was readyto impose swe^ing
counter measureSr
“Trade sanctions of nus
klnd':Could frigger.tit-for-tat counter mrasures and a crfeis,” one senior conunis- slon-ofilcial warned. The Trfiah minister.' 'Gay Mitchell.
**Mr- IQfldnd made no threat fo any
The (Sovamment would be dartatn' to- be tal^ to foe European Court tf Justice if it' froposed' trade sanctions. "GJven. fo^ it is the UK which is challenging foe beef
ban-ln 'foe- European Court, this could , lead to a rather ridiculous situation." one BU envoy 'observed. “1 for one do notbellma word of this talk of retaliation.”.
The Birmingham Six . . . then and now
PADDY JOE vnT.T.- si. who fomonsly panelled the air in a victory ^ate when he emerged firom foe Old Bai- ley In 1991, has never oon- c^ed tbe trauma of free- dom. He was divorced from his wife Pat in 1983 and she remarried. They bad six children. He stilUives In London with tua girlfriend. He has been a vocUbroas
tice, speaking in 15 DS states within the first year of his release.
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HUGH CALLAGHAN, at 65 tbe oldest of the men, remained in London after tdsrefoese, struggling to re- establish life with his wife Eileen. Their only daugh- ter, Geraldine, lost her hos- band in car crash shortly afimr his release, when she was expecting htf second child. Li 1993 Im published his autobiography. Cruel Fate, in which he says he hasnobitteraess. 'T do feel a great sadness at the futil- ity of it all," lievrrote.
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RICHARD MdLESMNY, 62. has been married to Sate for 38 years. They first moved to Dnblltt and now have a house with two big gardens in a village in Co Kildare. One of their five children, Ann, moved to the same vil- lage with her three ritil- dr^ and some oftiteir many grandchildren often come to stay over the holi- days. *^e live a quiet life, Jnst like pensioners,*' Kate said yes ter^y.
GERRY HUNTER. 47. broke op with Sandra, Us wife of 25 years, three months after his release, althou^ they remain close friends. Th^ have three children..He lives in south-east London but has not wolfed since he left prison, where he was the most private and with- drawn of the Six. Freedom transformed him and restored his hnmonr. Be, too. went public, visiting relatives of prlsrams on death row in Jamaica.
BILLY POWER, 49, was am- icably divorced by his wife Nora in 1990 after foe first. Called appeal, but she remained one of the most active campaigners and they remarried after his release. ‘Tt was foe most natural -thing in the worid,"
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much t-aiwjaignitigqn' Other miscarriages of justice.
JOHNNY WALKER, 60. bad been married to Theresa cm his release in 1991. She left Binningbam shortly after the bombings to Uve in Derry with their six da'ugh- ters and one son. Blr . Walker Joined them and they boi^bt a new house, bnt he found it impossible to ftt into fexnily life. The con- pie s^arated after a year. Mr Walker has remarried and lives in Donegal wifo a newaon.
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Sir David was unavailable for comment yesterday.
An incomplete report in
yesterday's Daily Telegraph that aO six had been given final oBbra of up to £400.000 and were about to challenge this in foe High Court led to criticism from Tbiy MFs.
Dame Jill Knight the MP for Birmingham Edgbsston. said: "Many people in Bir-
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over a much wider area will be inforiated at the efo*ODtery offoese men.
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with great fairness and foey are trying to make a laughing stock of the British nation.”
John Carlisle (Luton North) said: Tt is outrageous tiiat they should try to ask the tax- payer — probably in some cases the femilies of the vic- tims of the Birmingham bombings ^ for an additional sum, if indeed any sum at all"
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Mail group buys into ITN
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Associated News-
papers, which owns the Daily Mail and London Evening Standard, yest^sy paid £20.2 million for one fifth of the news broadcaster, ITN.
The deal underlined the company's diversification into radio, television and other "new media" outlets where it has been an aggres- sive purchaser recently.
Associated's entr^ into ITN arose because ITV com- panies, Granada and Carlton Communications, were forced to sell a sizeable slug of their shares. They each controlled 36 per cent of ITN as a result of having taken over other ITV companies -> Carlton bought Central TV while Gra- nada took over LWT.
A ruling by the Indepen- dent Television Commission forced them to reduce their stake in ITN to 20 per cent Associated has bauiht 10 per cent of each company's shares, meaning Carlton and
Granada still have a joint 12 per cent of shares to aefl be- fore they fell into line wifo the nrc guidelines.
It is understood these sharee will soon be sold, with MAI, the company which owns Meridian 'TV. rniDoured to be a possible purchaser.
Insiders say the resolution of FIN'S shareholding im- passe should open the way for the newscaster to cement its role as sole provider of news to the ITV network. It has been under pressure to reduce the cost of this service because of threatened compe- tition for the contract from Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB.
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tin, News at Ten, will be forced to change its time slot Associated owns a large stake In tbe independent radio group. GWR. and Clas- sic 7M. It has 20 per cent of the ITV company. West* eountiy TV. and a 45 per cent holdiDg in the on>screen in- formation service. Teletext
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The way ahead ... mor« and better seirices are expected at Eorotaiuiel taninals siieh as Waterloo, In an effort to compete witii ftny dnty firee&
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to war with £900m loss
Summer price war forecast as firm offers ‘more grief for ferries
Ian King
ACROSS-Channel
price war looks Iner- itable again this sum- imer after . Shirotun- nel, the Channel tunnel operator, yiKterday revealed net losses of £925 xoUUtqi ibr the year one of the worst- ' figures -Ih.BrttiA co^rate ' histocy..
An ebullient Sir A&istair Morton, Eurotunnel’s co- chalnnim, brushed aside losses and promised *‘2b^ grief for Hbriy operators diis summer, with a strn« bold marketing Initiattves. - -
Aldiou^ be refused to go into details. Sir Alastair s^ EurotunheTs services wovdd be marketed more aggres-
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Sir Alastair added: "We're hnrtixtf the terries where teey need to-be hnrt and hope they .win. start to rationalise 9ii^ operations tiiis 'year. As long as they don’t hnrt
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Stena spokranmn Brian Rees said: *TX their priority Is now to Inflict pain on terry operators to astablibt them- ! sdhtes as a oumopoly player,
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As part of its drive to com- pete with Eurotunnel. Stena would cut up to a third olf the price of its best-selling duty free cigarettes and spirits in May, to coincide with the launch of two new hi^spaed services.
Eurotunnel, which fixoe inp terest payments on its £8A bfllion debt last September,
insisted that the results^ in- cluding interest paymmts of £768 million, were In line with
Sir Alastair admitted teat tee figures were disappoint- ing. bttt pointed out teat Eurotunnel — whose losses work out at £1,760 a minute — had grabbed almost half the cross-Channel market in ite first year of operatiims, mak- i fang it market leader. Kot i many companies go team zero i to 45 per cent in their first year, so perhaps we've actu- ally deme rather welL”
However, the City reacted with disappointmoit at Sir Alastair’s teilure to come up with news on negotiations with Eurotunnel’s bankers, and marked the teaira down i to 68p.
EurotunneTs 228 bankers are deciding how to restruc- ture the group’s debts, and al- thou^ Sir Alastair denied It yesterday, an arrangement allowing the banks te swap some of their debts fbr a stake in Eurotunnel looks lik^.
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Golfer punches hole in etiquette
Molly Keane, chronicler of dextrous nnonsirosities, dies
Alex Bellos • •
Golf is meant to be the best behaved of sporte, and its play- ers abide'by a genUemaniy' etiquette.
Ctee particular unwritten rule, however, which the uninitiated would do well to remember, is this: never tee off when the people in front you are still in range.
Terry Duke didn't take this advice. He. ended up with a handicap no pertect swing could remedy. a. brokenjaw.
Portsmouth crown court heard yesterday how a row at a Hampshire clnb over a breach of Oie gentleman’s c^e resulted in one of the most violet outbiiteks of “golf rage’' ever witnessed. Mr Duke, abnilderaged 57, was taken to bb^itol after he was whacked with his own cliib by a man ahead of h<ni at the same hole.
The Incident began when Mr Duke’s son Peter, a low-
Terry ' Duke: played shot despite players in front
handicap player, teed off on { the 14th hole of the Cams ; Bteti Estate golf course, and i the ball flew.pastthe group in front The court heard that: Peter shouted “fore’* the group, includizig i Charles Haines, a 54-yeaj>J (fld businessman, gnickly i moved to the side.
But as Duke jdre moved to his tee. -Haines walked i
Charles TTstneg hit Duke in the tebe with his own chib
out into the middle of the fairway and stood with his hands on. his* hips staring back at talnr some 250 yards away. Mr Duke played the ^ot all the same.
Shortly afterwards, as the Dukes pr^»red to play their approach shots to the green, Mr Haines Jogged baiA up tee fEdzway and started threatening, teem.
“Mr Haines ' was heard to .aay: ’Who’s having this?’ And teea be threw a punch at Mr Duke senior, white missed,” said Simon Fosto:, prosecuting. Mr Baines denies grievous bodily barm and assault “Mr Duke raised his club to protect his face and Mr Haines grabbed it away. He then swung tt around his bead, hittx^ Mr Duke on the right-hand side of his i tece,” Mr Foster told the ' court
I “Mr Haines then punched Air Duke again and grabbed his shirt ripping it as the two men fell to the ground. Then an unsightly fight took place between the two men, beibre others arrived and managed to prise them I apart”
I The court heard that Mr ' Duke tried to retaliate as '-Mr Haines was dragged i away, but he was i rratzkined. Both men have I since been - expelled from ' tee £2,85(^-year clnb. Ibe | case arnttnura.
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The Irish writer, Btfolly Keane, whose twin careers spanned more than 60 years, has died aged n.
Her Hist stories were pub- lished in 1934. She had plays directed by Sir John Gielgud in Linidon’s West End in tee same decade, under the pen name MJ FhtrelL After a long obscurity, tee was rediscov- ered hi 1951, when her novel. Good Behaviour, was short- listed for the Booker Prize under bra own name.
Ihis late second flowering 'was cmsparable only wite the re-emergmiee of the novelist Jean Rhj^. in the 1970s.
Ms Keane lived Ibr mute of bra later life in a white- washed cottage in County Waterford. All that her sur- viving hite society friends were ajrt to say of bra later wrtti^ was ‘T didn’t find one qjielling mistake”.
She sate ‘Tdy bo6ks dwi’t feel part of my life. Tve only ever done it fbr tiie money.
When someone tells me ' teey’ve liked my bote, I may I feel a kind of drunken, warmth. But I somteow feel they're talking to someone dra.”
She grew op as an upper- Anglo-Irish gentleman's daughter. Borrowing her I pseudonym from an Irish pub I Ucensee’s name tee bad no- ' I ticed while hunting, she bad ' I Spring Meeting, tee first of five plays, perfensed in Ltm- don in 1938.
The death of her husband, Bobby, at a youthful age , silenced her artistically tuitil the 1970s.
i *1 see littie cruelties very pZainiy,” she sauL "People can be hideously unkind. 1 have often watched the dex- trous monstrosittes between the rite and nobeo-rite.”
Her subsequent novels were Time after Time, which, like Good Bteaviour, was televised. fbOowed by Nurs- ery Codlteig and Loving and Giving.
Obituary, page lO
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Shares soar as left takes over in Italy
John Heeparln huiita
The Italian left was last night readying it- self for its first real taste of powra after an historic vietoxy in Sung’s general election. Final results showed tee Olive Tree alii- anra gf fiprtnwr OwnmnnlafR, the Socialists, progressive Christian Democrats, and Grrans could enjoy a dear majority in tile lowra house of parliament — 'but only with help from hardline Marxists.
Fears that this could lead to tan^fons within the ruling co- aUtion were broahed aside by investors who saw In the results a teance for stable govenanent by a respected ecODcmist The centre-left's I candidate Ibr prime minister I is Romano Pxudl, a Bologna university profesrar and for- mer dialnnan of tee state
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Sbare values soarte by al- most 5 per cent on the Milan Stock Exchange but bond prices and tiie value of the lira dipped later on figures in- dicating a resurgence of : tnfiatiMi.
That is one of many prob- I lems facing the new govern- ' meat in a oounbr which needs thraough reform. Prof Prodi said his first steps would indude cutting inter- ests rates and rejoining the European Union’s eectemge rate mechanism.
His ritet'l^BBd man Walter Veltrom of the ex-Communist Democratic Party of the UA (PDS), said other priorities in- dud^ a simplification cf tor- tuous tax regulations and aid to small businesses In the de- prrased south.
Asked if Italy might be in fbr a period of austerity, Prof Prodi said: "If seriousness is called austerity, yes.*’ nie defeated leader of the
I right, Silvio Berlusconi, dis- 1 missed H^eculatioD that be might leave pbUtSes. Ihe tele- ' vision tycoon, who is being I tried ftor corruption, said bis I alliance^ which indudes ftee- I marketeers, fenuer neo-fes- j cists and ex-Ghrlstian Demo- I erats. was “important fbr keeping Italy within the bounds tf a true democracy”.
The Olive Tree aiitenee will need the support of the ortho- i dox Marxists of Communist I Refbundation, whose leader,
I Fausto Bertinottl. yratarday ' pnmiM to “help give blrte” to a craitre-left administn^ tlim. But be made it dear he I teqted to Inlluraiee tee gov- ermnent "In a programmed I wajr". Mis campaign proposal j for a return to index-linked ' pay was. nevertheless, vigor- ox^ brushed aside.
Olive Ttee could, in theory, seek the support of the feder- ' alist Nortbeni League, which , did better than expected in I Sunday's ballot. But the League's leader, Umberto Bossf, who revived threats of secession during the cam- paign, scorned any sort of pact with either of the two na- tkaujly.based blocs. He said: "We shall be going to Rome ; . . . in the certainty that the north knows bow to free itself frt>m the colonialist power.” At the Vatican, a key force in blocking the Conununlats’ from power after tee second world war, Fat^ Federico Lombardi, the director of grammes for Vatican radio, said he hoped the result would usher in a period of stable government "so as to be to solve urgent problems".
He noted that, for the first time, the Church had not given the faithful advice on how to vote.
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Unions let in on Blair manifesto
Patrick Wbitour,C4ilef INiBtk al Coriwapendant
Leaders of the big
unions and the Labour leadership yesterday agreed a deal i^te will let the unions have a say In drawing up the party's manifesto.
The deal, white allows the unions to hold their own bal- lot, will help defbse tee row which followed Tony Blair’s decision to ballot tee party's entire membership.
It was agreed at a meeting at Congress House between bfr Blair, 'ttie deputy leader John Prescott and a handflil of senior union leaders.
The move to ballot tee 350,000 membership would have been tiie first time tiiat a key part of Labour policy- making had excluded the unions. The proposal had caused anger and anxiety with unions over Mr Blair’s plans for union-party relations.
Yesterday’s agreement means that Labour’s pre-elec- tion manifesto, due to be pub- liteed this summer, will be put to a ballot of party and tmiott members, probably tiie bluest preelection endorse- ment ever sought by a West- ran political pa^.
Hie 6MB ankm’s general secretary, John Edmonds, was instnunental in persuad- h% his fellow union leteers that fbe best response to Mr Blair’s membership-tmly bal- lot move was to co-ordinate unions* ballots. It now seems all the big unions — the Transport and General Woik- ers Union. Ihiisim. the GMB, file Cwnmimication Workras Ihiion and the AfiEU — will , hold ballots of all their politi- 1 cal levy payers on the ! manifesto.
Such is tee unions’ determi- nation to remain integral to
labour decision-making that the? will collectively spend close to £1 million from their political funds on the ballots, even though the money mitet have been expected to be passed to lAbour’s general election cofi^.
Even if Mr Blair and his ad- visers mi^t privately like gradually to dlkance Labour from tiie unions, tee latter’s ballot decision represents a Itolitical gain for him as wril, since the unions wiU be bold- ing membership ballots in an effort to i>rove they are not second-class dmnocrats.
Mr Blair was last year fiercely critical of some unions for fhilii^ to hold proper ballots over bis planned changes to Clause 4 of the party constitution.
Yesterday’s meeting had also been called in the wake' of aiteer in some union quar- ters over the speed with white Mr Balir announced his ^an for a membership ballot on the manifesta
Despite the better atmo- ^ibere at yesterday’s meet- ly key issues still remain unresolved. It is not clear whether tiie unions’ vote trill be counted union by union — a method which could reveal, for example, unease in tiie
I ran unioDS over Labour's plans to renationalise the railways.
I 'Ihe ballot is likely to be held after the Labour Party
i conference in October and.
I from Mr Blair’s point of view, will explicit his piaw* for government, as well as undermine Tory rfaiTna he is leading an unmodernised party unenthused by political direction In white he has marched them over the rm? years.
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Local elections
Stoke-on-Trent city council
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Tanas 10 seatB
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# George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent Central, Labour majority 6.S08)
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Tories feel heat as Five Towns vote as one
The Tories face a "massacre in the Potteries" at Stoke in next week's local elections. Martyn HalsaU visits a dty preparir^ for the restoration qf its power as a new unitary authority.
The writer J B PrtesUey went to Stokeon-lVent and found only a “mythical city”. AichF tectural guru Nikolaus Pevs- ner despaired over ”an urban tragei^. But the capital of the Potteries, wliich Is ia«paring to take back all Its services next year for the first time since 1974. remains un- ashamed c^its industrial pn-t The “unique” city c? six towns — “Arnold Bennett missed one out and the people of Fenton have never forgiven him,” said a local patriot — now invites visitors to its his* toric potteries to “feel the heat and taste the soot” It is also preparing for a political massa- cre on May 2, predicts Sttdce's Labour leader Ted SznldL His party holds SO of the 60 councU seats which will all be
contested in the local elec- tions. The balance of 10 Tories emei^ed during days of disillusionment after the last general election, but this time Mr Smith has found Labour fervour unparalleled since his first involvement in' local politics in 1B15. the year of Labour's hui^li^ victory in the general election.
“It's lovely knocking on doors with your colours on and hearing people saying: ‘Labour, yes, no problem,' “ he said, forecast for Tory rivals is crl^: “And then there were none.”
Nigel Howie, who has gaug^ the pditica] pendu- lum for the past five years for the Stoke Sentinel newspaper, thinks that a 58- two Labour- Tbry result is a fair forecast' With up to nine candidates in some of the 20 wards, a novel Llb-Dem presence Is also possible.
The next )*ear will be spent preparing for the new respon- sibilities and the trebling of the council's workforce when
A brick tribute to Stoke's traditional indostry . Labour predicts Tory support will
edueatioa social services, li- braries, and consumer protec- tion are returned from Staffordshire county council control
The 20 councillors with the best mtqorities will not face the electorate again until 2000, There will be no local elections in 1997 and for the' nest three years candidates will be fielded in order of
their vulnerability.
Issues around Bennett’s Five Towns of TimstalL Burs- lem, Hanley, Stoke and Long- ton — plus Fenton — suggest a rehearsal for a general elec- tion. Pottery atwI pit redun- dancies are stiH blamed on the Government, while Labour is credited with some pragmatic public-private sec- tor partnershipe.
Ted Smi& forecasts 10,000 new Jobs — mos^ in elec- tronics and light mdust^ — will emerge from £750 miUtm of investment *‘in the p^teline”.
The city is also aiming for a broader economic future wiffi the China Line minibus ser- vice Ihiking histmic pottez^ ias. At the Gladstone works, some restorative Euro-fund-
ble on May 2 PHOToenAntooN
ing enables visitors to mijoy historic casting and jiggering, to “feel foe heat and smell the soot”.
Queues in the JobCentze surest every job will be wd-
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a skilled hand forower was in Norfoumberlasd. and foe beet- paid esrscutive positkm oBbred a mining engfosor £34,000 a year — in fodonesia.
Convicted man ‘lacked gun expertise’
Court of Appeal told girlfriend’s parents shot by experienced gunman in ‘callous execution’
Duncan Campball Crime Corresponclent
A MAN convicted of killing his girl- friend's parents did not have the expert- ise to fire foe gun, the Court of Appeal heard >'esterday.
Jonathan Jones, aged 33, had only ever handled a gun as a schoolboy 20 years ear- lier while the shots that killed Harry Tooze. aged and his wife, Megan, aged 67. at their ferrahouse In mid-Glamorgan in July 1993 had been fired by an experienced gunman.
Jones is appealing against his conrictlon for murder at Newport crown court in April last >'ear by a 10-2 maJorit>' after a 30-day trial. The trial judge, Mr Justice Rougier. said in a private letter to Mr Jones's counsel: ‘‘I am bound to record that the %'erdict caused me some surprise."
Jones, who attended yester- day's hearing, has been sup- ported by Cheryl Tooze, the daughter of the miudered couple. She offered a reward of £25.000 for mforma- tion leading to the conviction of foe "real killers".
The Toozes were both shot in Che back of the head with a shotgiu from a distance of three feet, John Rees QC. for Jones, told Lord Justice Rose, sitting with Mr Justice Dyson and Mr Justice Gage.
"They were, in short, exe- cuted." said Mr Rees. "Both were killed in identical fash- ion in the most callous way." Jones's only experience of handling guns had been at the age of 13 or 14 when he attended a naval base.
The “photocopy-" similarity of the two shootings indicated that Che gunman knew exact- ly what he was doing. Mrs Tooze had been trying to es- cape when she was shot.
The prosecution case had been that Jones, from Orping- ton in Kent, killed foe Toozes because be believed that through Cheryl he would in- herit up to £150.000 which would help fund a market research business. The de- fence had argued that Jones had no such motive and had been in Orpington looking at office property at the time of the murder.
Mr Rees said Uiat the shoot- ings would have meant that the killer was covered in blood and brain tissue but no scientific evidence linked Jones to the bodies.
Jones always wore his spec- tacles because ofhis poor eye- sight but minute examination by police forensic scientists had found no traces of blood on them. Wash basins at his house had been dismantled but still no evidence linked him to the shootings.
Fresh evidence would show that Jones's alibi, which had been challenged in foe trial was genuine.
Ms Tooze. who also attended the bearing, had given evidence in the trial and had been “unfairly
accused of being a liar In the context of this case . . . Cheryl believes he could not have killed Harry and Megan and has supported him throughout.”
The court Imard that Mr Tooze had been shot inside a cowshed at the 14fo century form then dragged to a trough and covered with tarpaulin sheets. Mrs Tooze bad been shot at the farmhouse and dragged to the shed where she was hidden by a heavy carpet
Nothing linked Jones to the scene and the motive for the crime had not been estab- lished by the Crown. It could be shows that Jones’s relationship with foe Toozes was amicable and Iw was treated as one of the family. There was no evidence that he would have inherited foe money as tte ooupfe had no plans to marry. Nor was there evidence that Jones was des- perate for cash.
"Is it likely he would have killed them? Is it likely he would have killed them In foe way they were killed — a cold-blooded execution?” asked Mr Rees.
The appeal continues today.
Cheryl Tooze and Jonathan Jones before his mnrder arrest
CATAtb.GUB'^ of bhnidars left-a'pan.* Mid-'wUlzojAiiranle to.Mn.aJhi0foer in a random '-atlaek,. an. in-' qoiryfoimd yesterday., raiesh- 3T, struck 9anita Katux 27.-at speeds flf.4Sm]^ jehile diiving-'in'a.west dptMaxpai*.-'-'-. . .
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histead of compdlsary treat- ment in .hospfial. Gedher, who liad'sot otmtplied with medication ^, .18 moafos. WM aHowed Ini tbe.'commu- nity. This was “at best, naive*’, says foe r^x)cL . .
GadhiM- had been in hospi- tal four times, andjwas receiv- ing oufoatient " treatment at West Middlesex hd^ntal
Staff failed to act on signs of a deterioratioh in his cimdl- tion after he hecsune a mmt «i>> diivei'.'Six moiifos eeHier his father and brother warned be could kill bimwif oranofoer person.
But the inquiry team, chaired by Jo'bn Main QC. condude foat foe tragedy was' not predictable and stress, that no one person or agency waste blame.
Tha report adds, however that 4»-witpht have been pre- vented bad Gadber been read- mitted to hospital or pre- vented from driving.
The inquiry, ordered by Ea- ling Hammersmith and Hounslow health anfoority and foe borou^ of Hounslow. higMiphte COlffhSZOn OVST foe Mental Health Act and says a car be as dangexpus as a gun in foe hands of snaneone mentally iU.
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- Doctes from Hounslow and Spelthome Communis Men- tal Heaifo- TVust decided to him in March 1994. But he wss not given foe sup- port be needed and receive only Tfiftr^iy visits by his social worker despite his wish for more.
' The Inquiry team said staff at . Heston'. 'Work Cmitre no- ticed chan^ in Gadber’s be- haviour at the begirining of August; but social services and medical authorities foiled to take proper action.
His ^y social worker, like tile psychiatrist, did not real- ise that Gadber could be gtvmi compulsory treatment und^ fhe Bdeiital Health Act The r^)ort notes mental health services were under intense pressure at the time because of a lack cf resources.
The inquiry team makes 1? recommendations. It says someone must be responsible fix- tellmg the DVLA of pe<^ with A known mental Dlness OQ medication.
Kfifca Bellamy, *iwRi*h su- tinxlty chiet esecutive. said around £42 per bead of popu- lation was being spent on Tn«mtai hteJtii in Hoouslow against £24 three years ago.
Gadber was sent to a men- tal hospital for an indeGnite period after a judge decided he was unfit to stand trial
Police vote on death penalty
Duncan CainphaB Crime Cotrespondawt
A 'NATIONAL referen- dum oh the deafo penal- ity will be sought by members tf tiie Police Federa- tion at their annual confer- ence next montiL A vote in fovDur would to pressure on bofo major parties, who are anxious not to altonan* the police in the rnn-up to a general Section.
A motion propoeed by the Thames Valley branch would require fhat Qie federation put its resources into a media campaign to press any future government to bold a rafersn- dum. Interest wiU be height- ened by foe foct that tiie Home Secretary- Michael Howard, is likely to be pres- ent during the debate. .
The latest opinion poll on capital punishment, con- ducted by Meal for the News of the World, showed that 76 per cent of the puUic fo- voured the death pez^ty In some circumstances. A large majority snpporta capital punishment for the murder of police ofllcers on duty.
Capitel punishment al- ways had the siqiport of tiie rank-and-fUe of foe Police Federation, but in recent years the leadership has seen a debate m foe issue as a di- vereion. since free votes in the House of Commons have all resulted in defeat They have concentrated their energies instead on a campaign to ensure that
peJiee kilters remain for life. However, tiie idea of a referendum may appeal in the current climate because it would force both parties to sfv foat they would not be willing to trust tte issue to the public.
Ofoer issues to be debated at the conference, which starts in Scarboroogfa on May .14. include a proposal from the Hampshire branch to treat the cultivatiOD of more than 20 cannabis plants the same as an intention to sup- ply drugs. This would lead to heavier sentences for tha in- creasing. number of home ^wers of cannabis, the ma- jorify of whom are not in- vriv^ in dealing.
Hampshire also wants foe introduction of an offence for the selling of cannabis seeds.
A motion calling for a change in the law on "stalk- ing”, or persistent harass- ment, is emtain to be passed.
Devon and 0>mwall police are aeridng a change in tbe law whidi would mean that an officer’s disciplinary record could not automati- cally be brought up In court by the defence. cite tiie Rehabilitation of Ofiteiders Act as a ba^ for sudi a riiange.
A warning that Britain’s policing is in danger of being controlled by the private se- curity indusby will be by David French, rfiairmpri of the Constables Committee, which represents 90,000 offi- cers in England and Wales, out of a total force of 126.000.
Suspended prison term for gas death landlord
A LANDLORD was j-es- terday given an 16- month suspended sen- tence at Sheffield crown court after admitting the man- slaughter of one of his tenants who died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty- gas fire.
In a case believed to be the first of its kind in Britain, Thomas Beedie of Cot- tingham. Hull, admitted kill- ing Tracey Murphy, aged 19. She was found deati in her Oat in Pearson Park. Hull, on No- vember 30, 1993.
Beedie changed his plea on Frida)' after more than two days of legal argument.
The He^th and Safety Exec- utive had prosecute Beedie in 1994. wlien he was found guilt)- of foiling to maintain the gas fire. He and his wife were each fined £1 .500.
In July 1994 Bec^e was taken to court by Hull cit^' council and was found guilty of 15 offences under the Hous- ing Regulations Act. He rece[\-ed a two year condi- tional discharge and was oi‘- dered to pay £l.nuo costs.
A jury at the inquest into Miss Murphy's death in September 1994 ruled that she had been unlawfully killed.
Sentencing Beedie at Shef- field crown court yestet^xy. Mr Justice Clarke said he should have been prosecuted for manslaughter at the same time os the previous tw-o pros- ecutions, and it was because of these exceptional circum- stances that he was receiving a suspended sentence.
The court was told Beedie's
"lack of responsibility and ne- glect" led to Miss Murphy’s death.
Beedie. aged 47. had not ser- viced the gas fires in his 18 bed-sits and flats in Pearson Park since tltey were in- stalled nine years before.
Roger Keen. QC. prosecut- ing. said: "The lack of respon- sibility and neglect on his part killed his tenant.
“Just like any landlord he w-as under a du^- to maintain and repair his premises and to ensure the safety ofhis ten- ants He failed in that duly anti It \v,is such an obvious risk tlut It i!s deiu- that he
was indifferent to her w-elfore."
Miss Murphy, a waitress, saw lier dorior about head- aches during the two months she lived in the flat.
A few days before she died another resident said she was “clearly confused, drawn, quite pale and tired".
Robert Smith, QC, defend- ing, said Beedie accepted that he had been "grossly n^l- gent". But he stressed in Other respects Beedie was a good landlord who had spent substantial amounts of money maintaining the property.
He had already “sub- stantially punished”.
Mr Justice Clarke said: “You are guilty of gross ne^ lect, thou^ I acce^ the evi- dence that in some respects you have been a good landlord."
The judge warned: ''Land- lords must appreciate that if their gross negligence causes the death of a tenant ... it will ordinarily merit an immedi- ate custociiai sentence ”
He also ordered Beedie to p,7y£4.iiiw costs
Law Society challenger fights ‘forces of darkness’
Council may reject as foster parents couples who smoke
Clare Oyer
Legal Correspondent
The bitter factional battle at the Law Society gained momentum yes- terday when Eileen Pern- bridge, the most vocal oppo- nent of the president Martin Mears, revealed that :foe was considering running against him again this year.
Ms Pembrli^. onre de- scribed by Mr M^rs as "foe oxost darvgenms feminist in England", said -she was also considering sa^estions faxed to her office yesterday that she should repmt him to the Solicitor Complaints Bureau Rk- bringing the {Session into disrepute.
Mr Means angered a women lawyers' conference at the weekend when be denied that women suffered prajudlce in the legal profe^Ion and sug- gested that zealots had made men the victim of discrimination.
He attacked "dlscrteitna- tton zealots who thrive on grii?\7inces mid heresy hunt-
ing and use minoritira as raw material for their whlnge foctories."
The maverick president, who defeated Ms Pembridge and the society's official can- didate, Henry Hodge, last June in the first contested election in 40 years, is seek- ing as unprecedented second
Eileen Pembridge: most dangerous feminist’
term. But his strong support among grass roots solicitors has d^rred adversaries on the society's T^member coun- cil fiem enterii^ the ring.
Ms £*embridge accused Mr Mears cf creating "a climate of fear and distrust” and In February called for someone to stand against him. She was tiien pregnant at .the age of S2 and decided not to sta^ but she lost the baby. She said; 'Tm being urged to consider running for presideit against foe forces darkness. Ifs vitally tmportant-foat some- body shftuM stand against him.” Mr Mears said: *T beat her easily last time and ITl beat her this time.”
He sent a. memorandum to council members yesterday complaining that his spe^ bad been misrepresented in a Sunday newspaper. The memo says that he removed criticism of the Bar’s equality code from his speedi to pre- serve good rations wifo foe Bar. He found it "disagr^ able*” to have the Bar chair- man. David Penry-Davey QC, "pitching into’’ him.
Martin Wahinighl
BRITAIN’S largest local au- foortti^ mv extend penal- ties {gainst nnokeis into field of fostering and child care.
Councillors in North Yoris- sbire will on Thursday debate a proposal tiiatfiister parents who samdte be rejected when non-smokmg families, of otherwise equal merit, are available.
Council officials, 'whose be^ stretches fbom the Dnrbam border aimnat to the River Humber, are concerned about tile effects of passive SDUddng.
Peter Putwafo, Liberal Dem- ocrat diainnan. of tiie »«vH«i seirvices subroommlttee, said! "We are a responsible council and.we must consider this as part of our approach on smok- ing. Th^ will be plenty of dlseossioh, but. people are more and more aware of the harm caused by- smoking, which is Increasing banned in pn^Tii* places.”
The bui« eotuieU, on which Liberal Dmnocrats have the largest share of the seats, said the proposal was based on "common sense guidelines” which, would not be obsessed
by Smoldng to the arrluainn
o£ other considerations.
Mr Putwain said many things bad to be taken into account, such as the room a femily had available. ‘‘The proposal is that smoking should be one of them.”
The plan is likely to fitce tough opposition within the council which has a big Tory group and hgiarifting nilnop ities of independent and Labour councillors. The Lib Dems.are also likely to be di- vided over how murh stress should be placed on stiri-tirtnp when social services staff as- sess would-be fosterers anrf other carers.
Beth Grahiun. a lab Dem who riiaired the council year, said: "As a libertarian, I thinv that this is gfting a bit too for. There are so many health risks nowadays that it is perhaps iavidioiis to sin^
outsmo^g."
. The propo^ was welcomed by Action on Smoking and Health, tiie ffaTnpaign whlch has concentrated Hs Are in recent years on passive smok- ing. But if it is approved by the sulxommittee on .Thurs- day, It still feces the main social services committee and the frill council
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Comedians’ £300^000 debts
COMEDIANS Camion and Ball and their wives were yesterday disquaSfSed fixan being con^any directcffs fix' three yeaxs afier the Court in Maxiehester heard lhai ^ entertainma jw 19
debts ofmore than £300,000 at mehei^ of their careersbecaiise companies fixmed to diarge fi)T the comJ^ servioes 0Bihid to meet PAYE and National Jnauiance payments: *WMt'dia^n«i7wi<rs.
tinn nrderc wwwg made ay i nrt tha <vim^<anc — raal -naTnaa Thomas Derbysh^ and Robert Harper — and their wives Hazel and Yvonne in proceedings bronght by the hiaotvency Agency.
Devon faces hose curbs
PEOPLE in Devon lace an ertenaionorbosepipe bans, SotdlLYPest Waler warned yesterday.
The Roadfiard reservoirnear Launceston is only 39 per eesttfiiU. and hosephw bans already in throe inparts of noiim Devon may ha\’e to be widened. The company is seddng to draw more water fiom the riven ThsiarandT^nr. Supidies&tmtiieitrar Dart subtended lastsimuner after a stomach bug oatbreek, may also be reintroduced. Geod^ Gibbs
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junior dori5rs . wifh -some adverte attracting no re- q^mses or only poor quality
Wallace and Gromit dliroad
WALLACE and Gromit, the teimated fieroa* of Nfi^ Park's tr^le Oscar triumiA (abovej. have secoced deetls Ibr the BBC with 28 overseas broadcastecs, the corporatlan emiuuueed y^erday. ' .
BBC Woridwkte Television said the third film in the trilogy, A Close Slteve. which attracted 10.5 milBon vtewers'fbr its first TV showteg in Britalii. bad been sold to broadcastes hi Germany, It^ and the U8.
' It has ^0 been licensed to 20 airlines, tocludiitg Quahtas, • KLM and virgin. — Andrew Culf.
.’Dangerous man’ on the nin
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Three sisters end house feud
THREE daugbters.yest»day agreed to end dwirlegal batde'to evict their mother from the temlly home, wfiled to ttiem by
grandibther. Widow M^sanSwansttm, 71, who had been given notice foqiut hesrhome (tflSyears, willkeep her hottsein Oldhaxa. Greater blanriiester. under the terms of asetdemait a court heaoL The agreeing endingatwoyearwran^betweenMrs Bwanstnn and dai^hc^ Elaine NixbitValerte Hunter and , LcuraineTalhotcaxneberorethepartiesaipearedatSalSNd
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Triple killer found d^d lii cell
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Jester fights on to raise a laugh at summer festival in aid of peace in Sarajevo
Doctors snub hospital jobs
Trusts cannot fillgapleft by consultants quitting early
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/MndirtaitBw « i^torifiTom the National Association of He'alih Authorities and Trusts says today. Particular problems exist in aorideot and' emergenor, peychiatry, fmaestiietics. paediahics and ortiiQpaedics.
'ISie BritiA Medical Assoq- ation said ^ report rata- toroed its many
coxLSQltaiits weire seeking egrly z^tirenient and younger dodtor» looking for jobs abroad or outside of anedicine
The report says that 79 per cent cf the 174 trusts which respoDded to Its survey were haviiig' difficulties finding omuultBDte. "The problems ranged, from repeated adver- tisements to a nil response or a.poor field of candidates —
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The main reasons were a Culure ofnatitsial planning, a hi^ fsitout rate among doc- tors training for consultant posts, and Inflezlbilty in
Doctora at large. . wards face a dearth of consultants
granting work permits to overseas doctors. It also says there should be an expansion of ''sub-consultant" posts, where experienced Juniors do much of the routine work of consultants as a .full-time career, ratlmr than prbgress- tog to consultant status.
Many health authorities retied on overseas doctors to fill unpopular specialities, but chaxi^ to immlgratiOD laws have made work permits .harder to obtain. It is Euro- pean doctors rather than those, fiom' Conunoowealtb couixtrite who are appointed.
The report says chat 83 per cent of tnists.are having di£d- -culties recruhtog Junior doc- tors because <f high dropout
rate during tndnhfig. DifliciU- ties in recruiting Junior doc- tors to accident and emer- gency departments have been exacerbated because a six mmth stint in A'and B has been dr^jped as a require- ment to pass the Royal Col- lege (^Surgeons exams.
NAHAT says some trusts are concerned tiiat boosting pay deals in onpopular aped- alities will only lead to a "Jacking up" of all salaries.
Douk D^, NAHATs dep- uty director, said natiooul ini- tia fives were needed rather than piecemeal local actions.
"Whilst some local and natinrfi actions are being taken, tiieee alone will not solve the overall problems —
especially if the>‘ are dealt with in isolation as has often been the case in the past" James Johnson, chairman of the BMA*s consultants committee, said: ‘This report confirms what we hare been saying for sometime. People are so brassed off they are leaving the service. '*
Mr Johnson said govern- ment ffiaiTTiR that consultant numbers were being ex- panded at the rate of 10 cent a year were false, with the real figure being around 3 percent
Increasing the number of sub-consultant posts would be a disaster. "We would be of- toring a cheap service of poor qualib''- It would be a second rate service giving second rate care to patients.
“We are rearhing a man- power crisis. Ihere are at least 16 specialities where there are shortages. We are taHting about some of the big- gest surii as paediatrics airi anaestitetics."
A spokeswoman fw the De- partment of Health said nu- merous initiatives had been launched to improve the remiitment and retention of doctors, indiulii^ research into w2^ Juniors dre^ped out training and ^ creation of a Specialist WorMorce Advi- sory Group.
“There has been a steady increase in the number of consultants in recent years, with a 25 per cent iDcrease be- tween 1984 and 1994.
“Given the variety of career paths it will never he possible to ensure a pertoct match be- tween supply and demand."
East Anglia looks to Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia, Italy, Spain, Singapore and India
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/AAngdia ikeed the possi- biUty of cancelling opera- tions before It turned over- seas to recruit almost zo per cent of its consultants.
The James Paget hospital at Gorlestun, Norfolk, per soaded 10 consultants to move to Britain after toil- ing to attract DK applicants.
Pat Mullen, medical staff- ing manager, said; “There is DO doubt that without in- teruatioDal recruitment we would have been in a criti- cal situation.
“Ihe lifting of restric- tions on consultancy posts and the establishment of so many trusts created many vacancies and there were insufficient numbers to meet that demand.
"Hospitals not in the main geographical areas tound themselves in great difficulties and we took the decision to try and recruit
overseas”.
Ihe hospital, serving a basic population of 220,000, which doubles during the summer because oTboliday- makers at Great Yarmouth, also emi^oyes 15 German doctors Id Jmiior posts and all eight of the current vo- cational traixiing vacancies
Nurses demand special treatment as NHS elite
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URSES yesterday staked a claim to special treatment from tiie pregqpt amd ftature gov- eriunents as tii^ gave a heaJth minister a hostile rec^rtimi at the Royal College of Nursing's .annual congress.
Jedm Bowls, Junior bealQi minister'^jwas jeered and hecBed as he son^ to de- the GovanmenYs record on the NHS and on zmrses' in particular.
RON leaders tcdd'the chn- gr^ in •Bournwnouth that tooy vtore seeking to set qual- tfled . nurses apart from 'the
rest of the health workforce. They published a list of 28 de- mands fin* an mconilng gov- emmmit to meet -
Betty Kershaw, college president said:. “Nurses can- not be treated like other health care workers because we arteit other health care workers.”
The RON'S sfftet to portray its 300.000 qualified menber- ship as an elite stems from last year's Nm pay dispute. The college was outman- oeuvred by Dnlstet the big- gest health union, whlcb forced tiinmgh adeal making ail health workers except-doc- tors subject to the Mme pay meebanlsm.
Under the mechanism, the
unions have accepted the principle of local pay determi- nation to return for a safoty net arrangement
Ms Kershaw said nurses were bound by the Unison- brokered deal this year, but tite RCN bad not . accepted local pay. “This is Qie Royal Colley of Narsing. It isn’t and never will be a n^al col- lege of health workers."
With cougiess hftWiTtg an emergency debate today on whether the nurses’ pay review body has any role left, etiU^ leaders are looktog at new ideas Ihr a pay machin- ery for qualified nxirses alone. The RCN wants nurses to bave toe kind of treatment ac- corded to doctors.
Ms Kershaw said: “We de- Urer 80 pv cent of patient care. Our views matter."
In response to tiie ccdlege’s separatist stance. Bob Abber- ley. Ihuson’s he^ of health, said: “This is a time for unity, not titrowing stones.”
Mr Bowls told reporters: “We don’t want to see any one part of the team being wholly away from any other part. The NHS succeeds when all the elements — doctors, nurses, health care assistants, tom^ists and managers — work together for the benefit of patients.”
Harriet Harman, shadow health secretary, and Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat health spokesman, were well
received by congress. Mr Bowis said he had been to enough union conforences to know' to expect delegates to make their views forcefully known.
The 26 demands, set out in a “national health manifesto", include the re-establishment of national pay determination for registered nurses, toe end of short-term contracts for nurses and an annual rev’iew of financial support for nurs- ing students.
For patients, the list de- mands a guaranteed end to trolley waits in casualty de- partments, a legal right of treatment on a ward with pa- tients of the same sex and publication of national stan-
dards for entltiement to long- term nursing care.
• One in 10 patients catches an infection while in hospital, figures released yesterday show, prompting nurses to urge hospitals to disclose their infection rates as an in- centive for improvement
The RCN riaims toat hospi- tal infectioDS cost the NHS mil- lions of pounds a year. Nurses at the congress said local moni- toring was not enough: cases of infectiem should be notified to a central body.
They bUuDfli the “sUent epidemic” on an inw-ftnap in antibiotic-resistant intoc- tions, fewer isolation units and growing pressure on the health service.
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Govmnnenf is con- sidai^ ckwtng a free tefepbooe advice service used ^.more than three mil- Bon pao^ maizily penslon- Uis. a lekked inter^ Depart- hiem of Social Security Utemo
shows.
Tlie aational AxeUne ser- vice. dpoated feom 11 DSS -oentrea,' is intended to give impart abd expert advloe
qbC^ benefit *ntitiament_
ilTie- service is sera by chdZBant groups. as ode of.tiie. most dfectiye.sources of offi- cial adviced especially .for
^tiiose who. find it physical^' (Uffioilt to travel to a benefit
cffice.'Italso offers advice In Welsh, Pui^bl Urdu and Chinese.
Sraior Benefit A^scy staff, have beau forbidden to reveal the existence ' of the ' docur ment, .but a copy has been passed to toe shadow social security secretary, Chris Smithy who described it as "a. classic own ^aL It is incredi- ble-toat' the Government is cousdderlfig axing a real life- line for winiifmg of poor, el- derly and vulnerable people''.
The paper, marked restricted, shows that the Govenament *is considering transferring staff currently woiktog on the FVrellne Une into the nomei benefit ser- vice. The DSS memo sa^'s: "Presuming FVeelice was to-
close please profile bow staff could be absorbed over the 96- 97 financial year, into your District-Business Unit ^lainst anticipated vacancies. As staff leaver so the Freeline budget would be withdrawn.”
'nransfer at the advice sa*- vice to the DSS’s 156 districts would involve more than lOO extra phone calls per working to already hard-pressed local offloRS.
Mr Smith’s office pointed out yesterday that Peter Lil- ley, the Social Security Secre- tary, told benefit managers to February that one of toe best ways to 'cut tile £90 billion social security budget and reduce adminstrative time was to get claimants to pro- vide the correct Inforrnarion
first time — the prime goal of Flreeline.
Mr Smith intends to raise the future of tile service with Mr LiU^ in tiie Comomns to^.
Mr Lilley may reply that ex- istence of the memo does not mean the service will defi- nitely dose. Hbwevte-, Mr Smith said it was incredible that the Government was even considering shutting the service, since it bad kept open a motorway cones hot line for three years, even though vto tually no one was making use of It.
Staff unions claim the clo- sure of the senriee would save less than £SOfrbo, largely be- cause staff would have to be redeplo^'ed elsewhere.
Race reports must be fair, Wakeham tells newspapers
Andrew Cuff Media Correspondent
Lord Wokeham, chairman of the Pi^ Complaints Commission, yesterday warned newspapers that of- tensive treatment of racial minorities would not be tolerated.
He said toe commission had raised Journalistic standards during its five-year existence. “What simply raised eye- brows in the 19Ms wo^ today bring down a ton of bricks on any editor who allowed his or her newspaper to flout the central tenets of our code orpractice.”
He told the Coaimlsslon for Racial Equality's fourth
annual Race in the Media awards at the Savoy, London: “Readers to^y sii^y won't won't tolerate newspapers that treat racial minorities in an oEfensive manDm* — and nor will L"
He admitted bad practice still existed and some readers did not believe it was worth making a complaint.
• The Guardian's Maya
Ja^ unanimnnely won the
national newspaper category in the Race in the Media awards for the quality and in- sight of her arts features on ethnic minority writers.
The judges said; “This Jour nalist's work uncovws the hfqies and aspirations of some of the most influential ehtnic minorit3' writers today."
lONATHANKAYisapro- U fessional Jester laving a seriously umhnny wedi, antes
Today he will learn ftom Winchester council whether he still has a Ucrace to fill this huge natural amphitheatre (left ) with 50,000 music and arts enthusiasts and a live sat- ellite link to Sarajevo In two
months' time.
Negotiations continued yes- terday to secure a headline act for the proposed three day
event a festival ofmuslc, cir- cus and theatre over the last weekend to June.
Mr Kay. who describes him- selfasthelastfliD-timell- cteised jester to England, has never been Invtdved in any- thing on this sdtie before.
At home in Winchester he has been running a Hat feir, the oldest English street theatre festive for over 20 years. Whenhemettheorigl- nal oiganisers of the Isle of Wight fbstl'x^ Ray and Bill FduUc. the germ ofa bigger idea was bom.
Thej’ secured a five year agreement to use a 350 acre site at Chilconb DownJust outside Winchester. It seemod made for a bi g outdoor festi- val. Its natural amphitheatre shape was exploited by the Romans, and Elsmhowar addressing the massed allied forces before D-Day.
The festival should be the British premiere before an American toiu* oTa song and dance show called Sarajevo Circle, written byaman whose best friend was shot dead while they crossed the tarmac at Sarajevo aiipcHTt.
.Festival profits are to help peace developments in Sara- jevo and fond arts events in the H-impshirc area. PHOTOGRAPK SEAN SMim
are occupied by Dutchmen. In all cases, siMd Mrs Mid- len. appointments were made to specific standards and all staff had to meet the same criteria of medical training and nndmatandiiig as Brltish-bom doctors.
The trust has not offered incentive packages, al- though they meet the cost of return air fores and ac- commodation for all those short-listed. On appoint- ment they also receive rein- catiwi packages.
Among consultants cur- rently employed at tiie hos- pital are two anaesthetists from South Africa and one from Sri radiology
and orthopaedic specialists firom Australia and Italy, a consultant radiologist from Spain, a gastroenterology specialist firom Singapore and two surgeons fixnn In- dia, one a neurologist
Mrs Mullen said: “Far from creating difficulties, we believe it has been an ideal solution. Many of the cmisnltants have brought to our medicine the specific Qlfllla anil teaching prac- tices of another country and we believe that all our staff have benefited."
The hospital plans to ex- tend recruitment to other areas of the world, includ- ing Canada. America, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
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Defiant Berlusconi claims votes
Hooper fci Rome
SILVIO Berlusconi claimed last night that his losing right- wing alliance had won more votes, but fewer seats, in the battle for the ke>' lower house of the Italian parliament in Sun- day's general election.
Speaking at a press confer- ence at his home outside Milan, the media ^'coon said his Freedom Alliance took 50.000 more \-otes in polling for the chamber of deputies.
Final results still com- ing in East night, but his claim was backed by Rome Uni\'er- sity's electoral obsen.’atory.
7^ director. Gianni Sta- tera, said its Hgures showed the right had taken -14 per cent compared with 43.3 per cent for the centre-left Olive
Tree alliance and the ortho- da^ Marxists of Communist Refoundation.
TTie Olive Tree alliance had a cletir edge in seats and votes In the senate. VVith at least 137 seats, and the expected sup- port of several life senators, it will not need the votes of the Communists in the upper house.
One of the most significant consequences of the ballot
was tliat Uie federalist North- ern League lost its grip on the balance of power — at least for the moment.
After driving a punishing bargain with Kir Berlusconi before the last election two >'edrs ago. the League emerged from the 19SM poll nith llT seats in the chamber depu- ties. the largest number of any parc>’. it was this which en- abled its maverick leader, Um- berto Bossi. to bring down Mr
Berlusconi after seven months of fractious partnership.
But Mr Bossi's decision to abandon Mr Berlusconi prompted the drfecdon of al- most a third of his own M^. and yesterday's results reduced the League's tally in the lower house to 59. This, however, was a for better result than predicted.
It had been thought tiiat the Les^ue, which ref^ed to join either of the two big blocs. ' would be crushed between them — a fote common to third parties hi an electoral system dominated by first- past-the-post rules.
Under the Italian system, a quarter of the seats in parlia- ment are filled by propor- tional representation, but the remaining three quarters are decided by straight n^orlty. The League did particularly well in the key Veneto battle-
Forging alliances
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Wr(b The support ot the hard-hne Communlsls, Romarw Prodi and tm centre-left OKve Tm alliance can enjoy an outright majority in the t.ower House.
The Northern League, which had expected to hold the talance of seals, will not after all be a power broker.
Led by media magnate and former prime minister Silvio BerluscxMiL Its two mam parties are Berluseoni's own Fom Italia and the far-right Nattonal AMance
OlhreTtee 284
Communist Refbundation 35
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ground in the north-east, where it took 19 of the 50 seats.
For the moment however, it looks for more Ukely that the Olive Tree and Its leader. Romano Prodi. will count on help from Communist Re- foundation to give it a major- ity in the lower house. But that could be a strained FelatioDshlp.
Communist Refoundation. under the leadership of Fausto Bertinotti. bas taken a hard line on several issues that could bring it into eonfliet with OUve Tree moderates.
It opposes the way the Ehiropeah Union is dewlop- 1 ing and. particularly, eco- nomic and monetary union. It is opposed to any further reduction in Italy's bloated > pensions system.
It is in fovour of reintroduc- ing the defunct syst^ of in- dex-linked salaiy increases i which is widely blamed for It- 1 sly’s once h^ inflation rate.
But the seeds of contro- versy were also being sown on the ri^L The leader of one of two small Christian Democrat parties in Mr Be^ lusconi's alliance blamed the former neo-fascist leader, Gianfranco Flni. for forcing the election.
The Christian Democrats were Immediately wooed by the outgoing prime minister, Lamberto Dlnl who threw in his lot with the centre-left. Mr Pirn was also expected to come in for criticism frx^ his own party for losing vote to a new ultra-right group led by the v'etem neo-fascist Pino Rauti.
• Leftwing and social demo- cratic patties across Europe welcomed the result. ’’This first victory for the left in ihe history of the Italian Republic is of European signiflcaoce.'' said Peter Schleder, fbre^ afiairs s^kesman for Aus- tria's Social Democrats.
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ROMANO PSODl. . .In an interview published shortly before Sunday's poll, tbe economics profossor who is poised to head Italy's next government was asked what he would most like to change about bimself. He said he would preiSer to be nastier, to silence detractors who have - Maimed his amiable disposition ill-fits him for the rough- and-tumble afltaly*s politics.
Aged 56, he is one ofhls country's leading economists and a former chairman of tibe state holding company, IRI. Before entering politics last year, he lived and worked in Bologna, where he ran an economic forecasting consultancy and taught at the university.
A devout Catholic, one of bis roles in the Section was to pull in Italy's moderate vote.
He could alsotoast a pastas one ofthe country's few successftilprivatisers. having sold off several Qtl snbsi^ailn daring his stints as chairman firom 1982 to 1989 andagain from 1993 to 1994. ffis political opponents claimed be had fired more people than anyone else
standing in tbe election.
Mr Prodi was bom near Reggio Emilia in the prosperous north-central r^on of Emilio Romagna. He gradnated in economics from Milan’s Catholic University and later studied at the London School of Economics. He married a childhood friend, Flavia Franzoni, with whom he has two sons, ^ed 21 and 24.
In l974bespentayearasavisitingprofessor at Harvard, retTunlng to Italy to become chairman ofthe n Mnlino publishii^hoiise.
His only previous experience of government was as industry minister in a short-lived government of Ginlio Andreottu He held the portfblio for just five monfias between 1976 and 1979.
BIASSIHO D’ALEMA. - .Be beat Mr Vettroni to the PDS leadership in 1994, succoocUng Achifle Occhetto.
Mr D’Alema refrised to put himself up against Silvio Berlusconi — as Mr Occdietto did with catastrophle results — choosing instead to field a political novice wltih a jovial persona.
Not even his friends would call him afEable. He is better known for his intelligence and sardonic wit
FAUSTO BERTINOm . . . He Is the joker in the n wly reshuffle pack of Italian poUtics. Unlikely to be
politics. unuiMsxj kv allowed anywhere near the cabinet he will still play a
key Foie in shaping Its policies because as the leader of Communist Refoundation he has the power to bring it down.
After tbefoondation ofthe PDS. be Joined tbe
breakaway Communist Refoundation In 1993 and was elected its secretary the foUowingyear.
WALTER VELTRONI ... It was aa coincidence that when Professor Prodi claimed victory on Sunday Wight- the man standing at his shoulder was Mr VeltronL The 40-year old editor of tbe formerly Communist daily. L'Unita,
bas been tbe link man between the Prodi camp awrf the PDS since the start ofthe professor's campaign for the premiership, and is likely to become deputy prune minister.
Jet-propelled gurus vow to lift spirits of weary Saraievans
Julian Bovger In Sarajevo
Bosnia is beginning to experience one of the iron rules of 30th cen- tury' conflict after the buUets and the bombs come the gurus.
The peace treaty and the lifting of the Sor^evo siege i have opened the doors to the I good, the bad and the spiri- tually unorthodox. The capi- tal In particular is becoming a popular destination for mys- tics in loose-fitting clothes looking for com-erts.
George McMUlian Is one of the new arrivals. He Is a half- Commanche native American from CailTomia who — after i long phases as a Sikh and a | Buddhist — now describes himself as sort of Tanfric ' Catholic"
Mr McMillian felt com- pelled to travel to Sirajevo after experiencing a vision of Bosnia's siifiering while driv- ing past a civil w.*tr monu- ment outside Nashville. Ten- nessee. L*ust year. HLs mLssion IS to set up a “sound temple" where Bosnians of difTerent faiths can come to pray, cliant and hum.
.According to a letter he has sent to Sarajevo's Muslim. Or- thodox and Catholic lenders, the temple \rouM .-tIIow all faiths to "brinK together their unique positive strength to cre.ate a still jn^int of hope and love in a n-orlcl trnumtitised ;uid in ilesp.Jii '.
The soft-spoken -16-year-old with a pig-iail and a gim-tr may come from the benign end ofthe guru spectrum, but more in.'sidious cults are on the way this summer, accord-
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Holding the line . . . Nordic I-Fur soldiers guard the crowded Spreca bridge near the northern Bosnian town of Doboj. Muslim and Croat refugees flocked to the bridge ho^ng to revisit their old homes, but were blocked by Serbs. Tbe Nato troops fired into ttieairto brndt up scuffles. UN workers and Nato ofllcoi's accused all factions of encour^jng clashes by leading refugees to towns fix>m which they had been expelled PHOfroGRAm: aanko cukovic
ing to an employee at a com- p.any hiring out public addi'es-^ eiiiiipiuent.
"We've got linokinss from all kinds of [lenple. A lot of people rixicii the lVi.st Coast, including some of the drug gurus, a lot of Now .Ago stuff with ecstasy." he said.
.-^iiiong those Lxwkin'.t meet- ing lialls are colonic iiTig.a- tort from Sweden and Eng- fond — who elnim that tlie
Eiosnian conflict was fuelled by bad diet and constipation — and mediums offering to ger bereft families m touch \v itii the spirits of their dead.
SlieU-shocked Sanyevo is potentially fertile ground for the gurus. Over the weekend a “Festival of India" — which turned out to be a recruiting drive for the Hare Krishna movement — attracted nearly a tlious.*md young Bosnians.
But the lnflu.x of spiritual ait«7iath^ is also creating friction in a country where religious identity has been etched into popular con- sciousness by four yeare of ethnic conflict. About 50 newly arrived Hare Krishna devotees were attacked on Friday w*hen their singing, cj-mbal-clashlng procession collided with Muslims emerg- ing from a Saiajevo mosque.
Four Hare Krishna mem- here were livured. Including two Britons, Colin Campbell and Toren Wilson, who were taken to hospital with knifo wounds. The Briti^ consul- ate in Sarajevo said yesterday that Mr Wilson had already been discharged and was on his way to Britain, while Mr Campbell was in a stable condition.
As the symbol and media
focus of die conflict. Saraj^ has long been a magnet for sects and cults, but until the December peace accord the siege of the city acted as a Al- ter. blocking tbe more bisarre war tourists.
An attempt by a gang of leather-jacketed bikers to enter the city was foiled when Serb policemen confiscated the souped-up motorcycles they had hoped to ride up and
down Sarajevo's notorious Sniper Alley, performing wbeelies.
Similarly, an aid convoy do- nated and accompanied by west European transvestites got no ftartiier tiian the (pre- sumably urysttfied) Serb forces ringing the capitaL
Now. in the post-war confU- 5i(m, it is easier for holders of west European or US pass- ports to enter Bosnia than any other country in tiie regiem.
Many of tbe young Saraje- vans who packed the Festival Of India said the war bad left I them disillusioned with the ' established religions — Islam.
I the Serb Orthodox Church ' and CaOmUciaa •— whose leaders they accused of help- ing deepen Bosnia's ethnic j divlite
Alma Duran, a 19-year-old from a Muslim fomfly who now wears a Hare &*isbna sari, said her generation "see how religion 1^ been manip- ulated by the state, the army and tbe police'’.
Sarajevan youth may be embracii^ Hare Krishna, but the city has shown no signs of being ready for a "sound tem^”. Mr McMillian is aHll waiting, two weeks on, for a reply to his letter ofering Bosnia's religious leaders a focus for their unique posi- tive strength.
Meanwhile, he has decided to begin a £aist to seek guid- ance on what to do next
"If the powers that be won’t allow me to make a sound temple, 1 will be the sound teozide.'' he said. He would i continue the fast he said, "till I I get an answer. Till 1 know , it’s going to be OE".
With memoirs, Mitterrand gives his side ofthe story
Paul Webster in Pauis
Greece inv baby-selling scandal
News in brief
Greece ‘shot at Turkish boaf
Helena Smith In Athens
Greece has Inuncheit .in ofTici.ll inquity imn illcgnl adoptions. :imid reports dial thousands of tod- dlers were sold to fomllies .it home .ind abroad m the 30 years ;iller Uie second world war.
Tbe Socfolist sovemnient ordered the investigation under mounting pressure from victituf^ of the alleged baby-seiiiiig scheme. Since the scandal erupted last rear, many Greeks, especially in the United States, hare b^n to seek their re.il identities. Many liave discovered their roots via ilie internet.
"\Ve have all the evidence in the world to prove that this illicit practice took place." said Marianna Falthfull. who helped set tip the Association for the Search for Children .Adopted Witiiout the Consent oftheir Natural Parenb.
"We want the gowriunont to revognive this ui uTiting .iTul 10 finally amend Greece's .iniiqu.ited adoption laws
Otlterwise. we will lake our cuse to the EuropL-an Court ol* Huimui Rights."
The victims say they were parietl from their faiiulies iifler being falsely declared ile.id a few daj's after they were bont. Most had been handed over to Instiiiitions on a teiniK>rar>' basLs by im- lioverishi.'il parents-
Doctors, priests, nurses and lawyers are all lielieved to have playtxl an active part In the racket
Evan^eios Vcnizelos. the justice minister, said orphan- age files would be open^ Up: "Tliero will be no more se- crecy siitruunfling this issue."
In recent mnmlis records at the municipal orphanage in the Wfsrern city of Patras have revealed that up to 3.000 children were illegally adopted between the 1930s .and IPrOs.
Ma Faithfull. who recently tracLsl her own fninily. sold most of the toddlers ended up being bought fora “h-imlsonie fet-" hv .Amoricmis.
Campaigni.'r'i s.iid veil lu\nlw;«y could hr.- uiailc only
ii' Gra^-ece's .'mtiquated adop- tion I.1WS were overhauled. .Although public institutions no longer face aU^ations of impropriety, there is a wide- spread belief that adoption scams nre still rife at private hospitals and in church-run refuges.
La.si week a priest runni^ a centre for smgle mothers in nortliem Greece was prose- cuted for allegedly forcing a young woman to sell her baby to a rich family.
"Private adoptions have to be banned because they have clearly encouraged ^by-sell- ing rackets." Ms Faithfull said. ".A lot of east Europeans and young Greek mothers imve been found selling their babies for around 20 million drachmas i£55,000j at private hospitals in Athens."
Otficiais at the health min- jstiy* h.ive blamed the prac- tice on unusually long wait- ing lists of people tvishlng to adopt. Greece's birthrate has folieii dramatic.'iKy over the past ilec.arie. Experts blame at- iiiir>|ilteric iwlluTion for the d-.''. I in, IV.! feiTjlitv rate
A Greek coastguard vessel opened fire on a Turkish fish- ing boat off Turkey's south- ern coast early yesterday. sllghUy wounding one fisher- man. Turkish officials said.
The Turkish foreign minis- . try said it would protest to Athens. Turkey' and Greece almost came to blows in Janu- ary over a group of unlntaab- 1 lied islets in the Aegean I Sea. -- Reuter.
employees to demonstrate at the Chicago offlee of the Equal Employment Opportu- nity Commission, which has alleged widespread sexual har^sment at the Mitsubishi plant — AP.
Dutch air crash
Ex-PM’s spy case dropped
Iteiter in Warsaw
One ofthe two occupants of a small private plane was killed when the aircraft smashed into the Fokker aircraft plant In the Dutdi town of Hooge- veen yesterday, the regional fire department said. — AP.
Dissident arrested
Li Hal a Chinese dissident and philosophy' student active in the 19^ democrat:}- move- ment, has been arrested and char^ witli leaking state se- crets. his mother said yesterday. - Reuter.
Anti-US bombs
Two explosive devices were thrown at the American Cen- 1 tre In Lahore, the capital of the central Pakistan province of Punh^b. early j’^terday, causing slight dama^, police said. — Reuter.
Kurd rebels killed
Turkish security forces killed 21 Kurdish rebels on Sunday in clashes in southeast Tu^ key, security sources said yes- terday. The regional gove^ nor’s office in Dlyarbakir said 4$ members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party had been killed in four da^ of f^hting in Bingol proving. — Reuter.
Mitsubishi protest
Mitsubishi shut down its as- seinhly line in lllinuis yester- day ;iml sciii iki huslcvuls of
Rabies in Poland
A rabies epidemic caused largely by an ovetptHuilation of [exes is spreading among animals in Poland, public television reported. It said there were 700 hot spe^, with the southern province of Radore worst affected and new cases reported every doy. -- Reuter.
The Polish prosecutor looking into allegations that a former prime I minister. Jooef Oleksy, spied I for Mosojw said yestenfoy he I would not proceed as the evi- I dence was tnade^te.
! "Today I decided to drop I this case." the military prose- cutor. Slawomir Gorxkiewicz.
; said.
Mr Oleksy has consistently I denied the aUegatkms, lev- eled by Poland's UOP secu- rity service and announced to i parliament by the outgoing interior minister, Andrzej Milczanowskt in Dumber, i Mr Milczanowskt said the I UOP had evidence that Mr Oleksy knowingly informed for foreign intelligence from I btfore the Can of communism In 1989 until early 19S6. wfaoi he was speakw of parliament. It later emerged Milczan- ! owsld meant Soviet and Rus- sian Intelligence.
"There xvere no grounds es- tablrshed to lay charges against anyone in lliis case."
said the ixosecutor, adding that the UOP’s evidence was at best circumstantial ann contained errors.
Mr Oleksy, once a senior communist, resigned as prime minister on January 24 when prosecutors launch^ a three-month investigation. The furore shook the ruling coalition of Mr Olek^s ex- communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and a peasant party, which only after tnngh negotiations formed a r»huffled cabinet under the SLD's Wlodzlmierz Cimoszewicz.
The ^ir broke just before the formec president Walesa, once the Solidarity union leadmr, handed over to his es-cpmmnnist foe AJek- : Sander Kwasniewski, who ^ narrowly beaten him in November elections.
, Mr Oleksy called the allega- tions a “filthy provocation'' by pro*Walesa UOP officers,
I and admitted only to an inno- cent acquaintance with a Warsaw-based Moscow dipU^ mat who later proved to be an in tell igence officer.
A VOICE from the grave folns the defence of Francois Mitterrand today with the publication of the late presidrat's Memoires Interrompos and a second book rebutting suggestions that he mishandled French foreign policy after Ger- man reunification.
Mitterrand, who retired as president nearly a j-ear ago, worked almost until the day of his death in January <m tbe memoirs, based on interviews with a jonrnalist, Georges-Marc Benamou. The work con- centrates on the most con- troversial episodes in his career, including his time as a civil servant with tbe collaborationist govern- ment daring the second world war.
The book is e^iected to dethrone the current French bestseller, the mem- oirs of Mitterrand’s widow, Danielle. Both contribute I to a growing industry in- I tended to establish an offl- I cial version of his life in the ' face of a Hood of critical ; literature.
j A foundation is being set I up by the Mitterrand Cam- ' ily, including his Illegiti- mate daughter. Mazarine, to protect against frirther revelations and to pnrsne any legal action.
The most emphatic rebut- tals in Memoires Interrom- : pus concern the war years when Mitterrand, a lawyer, was decorated for -his loy- alty to the Vichy leader, Philippe Petain. Respond- ing to accusations that he associated with anti-Sem- itic collaborators, the late president writes that he w^ unaware of anti-Jew- Ish laws when he arrived from a German PoW camp m March 1942. On discover- the extent of persecu- tion. he ''morally and phys- ically broke with tbe mediocre system that was to reveal itself as criminal".
The second book. De I'AI- lemagne, de la France, (Concerning Germany and France), reflects Mitter- rand's resentment at alJe- ^tions that he mishandled the cold war aftermath and fafied to construct appro- priate foreign policy.
Taken together, the books most striklDg effect comes from the cover Vbotograpbs. MitterraBd is pictured as a handsome young man on Memoires Interrompus and as a weatoered veteran on the foreign policy essay.
cartoonist Planto goes ftirther. sbow- ing six Mitterrands of vari- ous ages breaking into a ^versation between Pres- i^t Jacqnss Chirac and to announce: Ah, come to think of it I lOrgot to tell you something
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MORE than 100 pepple nave bera kUled in heavy floddi&e is Afi^ianistan. relief worke^saidyestsiday.Atle^
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CEOMB b eosthig the thiited states $iS0 bilUcm (£300 billion) a year, saysateporteoimxiissuned by the justioe departing in an etteapttoeakabdetbeiataiiffMecoettovicthascttbSdabase and doxnesde vlcdence as w^ as zminkr. rape and robbecy.
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the ovality cf life. Ihe laloe Of a tape, for esaisEile. Is pot at SS.100 Ibr out-of-pocket expeosestp] us tS^oeofcr the e&ct on &e victim’s ife. The calailationB, based largdy onfaiy awards, price tbe *lost onalify of Ufe” ibr a nmider victim aad his Banfly at $1.9Tnfflioii. — SAaardBebnorti/^YdrkL
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Fires rage across Mongolia
POREOTfire8haVeragedoatafcoQttDlinnorth-eastemMon@> liafiarathlrdwedlt, leevii^burtit-cut nomadic tent villages azid cfaarredcattlecaicasses. . .
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CAMPAIGNERS btdlt a momitain of alia6stl4,000bootB end sboes outside fbe Uxdted Nations Geneva headquarters yestoday to symbolise the Xnunan victims of landmines, as a two-week oonfierence to ti^iten
taiirafrhftqTo have been ooinpletedinTleniUi last October but wereadioanned because goveinnie^could not agreeonbeydettdls. In the six months since then, mines have or maimed an estimated 13,752 people —
each represented by a single shoe dump^-on the lawn outside the UNbRalabd^Natioms. .
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In the second article of a series on President Yettsih’s visit; Andrew Higgins looks at Beijing’s new hand in the game ; of triangular diplomacy in which It is hoping to dent US power
FORTT-FIVE miniT»P!< before Richard NbUQ went on tele- vssion SS yean .‘aff> to reveal a secret ^ait to- China by Henry stager, the $<^let Union | received an unnerving pre- view of WaShlnghmXjiew' "China card**.
The White Beoee the Soviet YpU Vor- 1
ontSDven advance text tfNiz- 1 on‘s televlsioci address — a eate wanuag ct *berions results** if Moscow kept stall- ing a superpower snmmlL Moecow got the message. **NegDtiatians deadlockad for Tnntffeg began magically to unfreexe,** Mr wi— togar later
Now it b China’s turn, al- ♦bftiigti fh* '*Ruaab card**, it would tQ play against Washinghm b a iieeble almu- jaenim of Nrzon'e o(dd war diplomatic coup.
With a visit thb week to Beijmg by President Boris
yeHsin, China bcpes to ce- ment along its 2,700-
-mile northern border, seal a 'bags joint prcdeet fbr a gas pipeline from Siberia to the y^low Sea, and play its own mated game of triariguiar diptkanacy.
**Thb b an elaborate way for Chfna to say 'boo* to Washington,” arid Steve Le- vine, ^ American expert on Sino-Ruasian relations. “Tliey will not be able to revive the <dd strategic triangle, but th^ can try to cause anxiety. **
Ibe current role of Mr Kb- ainger. the grandmaster of cold power geometry,
who was in Raging 1st week drumming up business for US corporations, shows how mnch has changed since Nixon frightened Moscow by flirting with Chizia.
No matter how cosy China becomes with its former ally and long-standing Russian rival, it will still depend on US markets and US invest-
ment China’s total two-way trade with Russia last year amounted to oniy £SA MUkm. with flie balaxkce in Moscow’s i fovour. With tiie US. China had a surplus of £20 billion.
Rut China still sees Russia as a source of leverage. Chi- na’s state-run tnadia empha- sises Mr Yeltsin’s trip as hav- ing more than bilateral >
BlgutWraw^ TViB oJRf»lal Xin- j hua news agency said it I would draw ‘‘worldwide i attention”.
Wm Wei Po, a Hong Ko^ newspaper that acts as a Beij- ing mouthpiece, crowed over rapproeheauent with Russia as a blow to American power “It b now obvious that Sino- Rnssian relations ate better | I than either country's ties ^ with the US. which indicates the US has Ittt the status aztd levetags it had in the l97Ds.”
Unlike Deng Xiaoping axxl ofoer revolutionary veterans. China's current leaders have personal, and apparently fond, mmnories of Moscow from the ISSOs, before Khru- shchev started «>wtog Mao a “xnariptrine communist” the two former allies became mortal enemies.
As many as 15 members of China's pcdxfouio were edu- cated in Russia and speak Rus- sian. President Jiang Zemin trained at flie Stalin Auto- works, a showcase cf Soviet In- dustry, now z«.
Wary of what foey see as an American strategy of **contain- meet”. China’s leaders look to Moscow as a valuable source of weapons and technical ex- pertise, and as a dhdDinatic counterwai^ to the US.
When President Clinton | sent two aircraft carrier battle : groiqps to Taiwan last xnontii. Chine’s most potent weapon in its war games off Taiwan was its new Russian Sukhoi j warplane. Beying readied a co-pnductiQin deal late last srear that allows China to man- 1 ufheture the planes. i
Such mUitaiy co-operation, ' however, has been far from :
the Ttananmen Square stu- dent protests in 1989. Mr Yelt- sin has already visited Beij- 1 ing and met President Jiang twice in Moscow.
But never before have Chi- nese and Russian leaders met , against a backdrop oT such | troubled relations between Beijing and Wadtingt^
“*I1iere b a 'Rnsab card’ but it is not a trump card," ! said James Tang <n Hong ' Kong Uzdversity. ’’China will it as for as it can against Washington but they cant I use it to shift the strategle | equation.”
Mr Yeltsin’s trip ftdlows
‘The US will not allow the emergence of a great country in Europe or Asia that threatens its powe^ to dominate*
easy. Due to squabbles over payment, a second squadron cf Sukhoi war^anes. painted in Chinese colonrs. sat for years at the Siberian airport at Krasnoyar^ China finally agreed to pay cash. It had ear^ Her exchanged canned fruit for a Russian D-S8 bomber.
Mr Yeltsin’s three-day vbit which starts tomorrow, has none of the drama of Mr Kis- singer’s China breakthrough In 1971, nor Mikhail Gorba- chev's turbulent vbit during
fruitless talks in The Hague between Qian Qldirni. the Chinese foreign minister, and Warren Chrbtopber, the US secretary of state, the latest tn a series foiled attempb to lift Slno-US relations out of their deepest erbb since the exchange of ambassadors in 1979.
Stm more disturbing for China was Mr Clinton’s trip last week to South Korea and Japan, where foe US mah> tiiina a combing force of
more than 80,000 troops. China regi^ America’s Bdb itan^ presence in Aab as aimed primarily at thwarting its policy on Taiwan anA its emergmee as a big power.
China's anti-American rhetoric echoes that used against the Soviet Union at the hei^t of the cold war. Ac- cusations tf hegemony ap- pear with increasing regular- ity. “The US will not allow the emergence cf a great country on the European or Asian continents that threatens its power to dominate,” said foe People’s Dally.
But any foars Washingtem may have about the emer- gence of China as a great power are felt even more acutely in Moscow. Until the 19fo century, large portions of what b now the Russian Par East belonged to China. China has relinqubhed its claim to Vladivostok, but maps still give its former Chi- nese name, Halshenwel.
”lf China and Russui can get on. thb is nothing but pos- itive. TUs removes ,i miDor source of instability in Asia," said David Shombaugh, edi- tor of the Chinn Quarttrly* **But there b so much suspi- cion and mistrust from the past that their hostility could re-emerge very quickly."
Tomorroie: ,Jaines Meek In Vladivostok
US credibility in the Middle East is at stake as Christopher fails to break the deadlock
Clinton’s
diplomacy in tatters
JonaMum PiwedlMMl to Washingilon
The crisb in the Middle East began to emerge yesterday as a diplo- matic disaster for the United States, as well as a threat to the pecgile oTfoe regiem.
As Warren Christopher, foe United States secretary of state, was forced to extend hb peace shuttb, US officials conceded that the battle be- tween Israel and HbbuUab guerrillas bad badly embar- rassed the govemmenL Mr Quistopher’s two meet- ings with President Hafex al- Assad of Syria yesterday were in bleak contrast to ear- Ihar US promises of a break- forou^ by the weekend.
Ihe exercise has dealt sev- eral blows to America’s stand- ing in the region, symbolised by Mr Assad’s pointed deci- sicn to keep Mr ChristOEdier waiting in Damascus on Sat- urday while he saw Yevgeny Mzaakov, the Russian for- eign minister.
Unprepared for the Interna- tional fury at foe slauditer in last week, the sminis- tration has suddenly had to adopt a more even-handed stance.
This will be manifost later flib weak, officials said, in a coolei; welcome than usual to Shimon Peres, the Israeli prime minister, when he vis- its Washmgton.
Qana has also created an c^iienli^ for France and Rus- sia to pursue their own Middle East initiatives, each sending its foreign minister to the region.
The Lebanon crisb has de- railed the admlnbtration’s strategy for the region. Wash- ington bad been using the issue of terrorism to unite fo- ra^ and moderate Arab states against Iran, and to a le^r extent ^ria.
But w civilian casualties in Lebanon have forced even moderate Arab leaders to con- demn Israel and stand b^iind
Wh>hn11ah
The anti-terrorism cam- paign has been suspended.
At the root of Washingum’s problem b its closmiess to ra^ The adminlstrathMi's op- tions in foe Middle East are sharply constrained by its constant suppwt for Tel Aviv — a political necessity be- cause of foe Importance of American Jewry’s 6 million votes.
“There b no local Arab polities in the US,’’ said Anthony Cordesman, a politi- cal analyst US sources con- cede that since tbtere b noth- ing to be gained politically by backing any country other
than Israel, US priorities in the area have been one-rided.
US offlclab are particularly alarmed by Israeli polls sddeh show Mr Peres’s lead narrowing in nest month’s election. The administration is afraid that a viefaN7 by Benyamin Netanyahu, leader of flieoppositkm ZJlnid party, would stall the peace process and rob Mr Cliuton of an e^ toral boost in hb own battle against Smiator Bob Dole In Novembv.
“If 6 unf^ to make ttib out as if evwythlng’s blowing up in our fiee," <»e souroe said yesterday. “Obviously tiiese are setbacks, but we antici- pated setbacks.”
Qnietiydetmiilxied. . . Tiebanwe tn p^rnt at^pped whatever they were doing yesterday as a minute’s silence was observed to remember the
102 rcftigees vriio were ftiiiwJ last wedc when Israeli troops fired shells at foe United Nations camp at Qana. in sontheni Lebanon, provoking
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Syrian leader raises price of ceasefire
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HOPS of an imminent ceas^ire between Is- rael and EQxbullah has aH but vanished as President Ba&z -al-Assad of Syria ex- ploits the central role he. has secured flv himarff in dlpilo- rnatic efforts to find a solution.
The signs are that Presi- dtelt Assad jiflawd* to Israel and tim Unites States pay as dearly as possible for what he sees as Jointly- planued agereesioa In Lefa» non that has gone seriously wrong.
The Syrian press striped up 'Its antifAmerican propa- ganda. yestBrday,.ev«n as US secretaiy . or sttte, Warren CStristopber, met Mr Assad te a sectmd time on hb sbub tie TTiiattinn between. Damas- cus and Jerusalem.
“Waifoington fa to Marne for ttie bloodbath committed by tts stxategto ally to LelMmon,” the Syrian Times said. ‘Those who foil to condgmn the Israeli crime M Qsna are not honest or serious in tbeir wHIh'IS.” awMad TlSh- teen, refrertog to the sbdling oifarafQgaecamp. - .Israel- must be punished, 4hfi press agreed.
Tw thfl ftiffw of foiq qq.
slaugfat, foe US negotiating team were very cautious about their prosj^cts yesterdi^.
”We think we have a chance of puttitog a deal together thb week,” the state dq;>BrtmeDt spcAssman, NIcl^
>il»e foljllS, aaif^ 4tt DsimWCUSs
Tjut that is not assured.” With so much uncstainty suircnmdzng the . diplomacy, the Israeli . prime miaisteri Shimon Feres, told perlia- moxt there 'was no deacUtoeiD foe military oporatiotL “Grapes of Wrath b an op- eration fliat b not limited to time but b detailed to its goals.. 'Bie goal b to brtog hag-term quiet to nortbem
I [Israeli} communities,” be said.
I He west on to accuse Iran 1 of using ttie Hizbullah guer- 1 riUa movement in Lebanon to ' sabotage the Middle East peace process.
And In an emotional out- I burst be told parliament that ' if Lebanon did not free itoelf from Iranian occupation”, tt would never have peace.
For the first time in the ' nampaipw warplases struck repeatedly at positions of the Popular Front for the Libera- , tion of Palestine-General Command, a pro-Syrian “re- jectionbt" group, at Naame. a tow miles soufo of Beirut An Israeli source said foe group bad supplied hundreds
of iwi«iies to its Hizbullah allies.
Israeli naval artillery con- tinued to shell tile coastal highway between Beirut and 5idon, wounding more motoriste.
Hbbullah bunched more Katyusha salvos on northem braeL
The Israeli proposals which Mr Christopher took to Da- mascus have not been offi- cially disclosed, but fbey evl- dentiy include Mr Peres’s offer of an immedbte truce, to be followed, to due course, by a formal written agreement.
Syria and Lebanon are reported to have quickly dis- missed the oSbr as a trap: ,
Arafat urges changes to PLO charter
BB£SIDENT Tasser Ara- 1 Gaza. Uhder the self-rule [ 669-memher cc the Pales- deal 'with forael last year, return to the self-
r&A convened the Falee- ■'tine Kictionai CouncU yes- terday to urge it to amend petsages of the U64 Pales- tine Liberation Organlsa- charter fwnfng the destruetton of IsraeL **l call T^on your council to amend an the articles tn tile warinnai charter which contradict the peace of the brave that we signed, ** he told llie opening session to
Gaza. Under the self-rule ; deal 'With toraal last year, Mr Arafat promised to amend the (dauses.
Israel has made it a con- dtiiott fbr its wtOidrawal from the West Bank town of Hebron and Xbr starting negotiations on foe final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, tocludtog Arab east Jersaalem.
Israel allowed many ex- : iled representatives on the
669-memher conncll to j return to the self-rule areas ' so the meeting could take place.
Mr Arafat told the conn- I cU after the meeting began ' in Gaza to ask its legal comr mittee to ‘ttbrmulate and the charter ♦■wng : into consideratioin the new. focis which rose on the ground w^ foe establish- ment of foe PalesttoSan AUr thorlty.” — Renter.
One Beirut newspaper accused Afr Christopher of trying to achieve for Mr Pmes pniftiogiiy what Israel had foiled to ariiieve militarUy.
Aoctedtog to American offi- cials, tile US 'Wants a written version of file understandingB that nnriflH tlto Jsst big flaro-
spin July 1903. I
But as the Syrians and tiie Lebanese see it this version actually amounts to a fimda-; mental revision of the underetandtogs.
wigiMTiiah would be haired from retaliating with KaQru- sba salvos on nortiieni Israel against Israeli attacks on Leb- anese crrilians.
Even less acceptable to Hiz- 1 bniiiiii, it would be denied the right to “resist’ enemy oceu- patlon with attacks against millt^ targets to the Israeli- declared south Lebanese secu- rity zone.
Israel’s ofibr to return for this virtual demobillsatitti cf Hizbullah would be. as a Bei- rut newpaper ^ it “some non-guaranteed promise to withdraw from Lebanon after ntoenontiis”.
Furthermore, the fragili^ of a mere truce would create such a dimate ctf uncertainty that the 400,000 refugees who ham fled tbeir towns and vil- lages would be afraid to return.
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Land of the red olive
The centre-left victory is good for Italy
OUT OF ITALY comes news at last of a new political orbit. B pur si muove, we might say with Galileo. Italian politics are not immutable after all; the cynics are wrong and this time there is real change, llie capture of the process by Silvio Berlusconi two years ago was a symbol of continuing disintegration rather than of reconstructidn. Ihe taw* dry process of his rule was probably necessary. The electorate still needed time to come to terms with the Idea that there could be an alternative to the old firm. What finally discredited Mr Ber- lusconi was less the charges levelled gainst him personally than the suspi- cion that he and his ministers were trying to undermine the drive against corruption. Those voting on Sunday against the right-wing alliance joined those voting for the centre-left to tip the balance. It is triumphant confirmation at the national level (already previewed over the past two years in other elec- tions) of a real fresh start.
Mr Berlusconi clung till the end to his belief that the grand cavalier would continue to dazzle the viewers (or vot- ers). Now he has gone out with charac- teristic bad grace, sneering that ‘"weTl all meet ag^ abroad.” victorious Romano Pro^ who made a virtue dur- ing the campaign of not being a star performer, says (as well he mig^t) “Thanks, Italians!” Instead of the gnarled and twisted stump of old poli- tics, there is a young new olive tree. We don't know how much fruit it wiL bear, but its leaves show a healthy ^een.
Italy’s “blocked democracy” of the past 50 years not only ensured that a genuine opposition could never prevail against the assumption that it would not be allowed to. It also created an atmosphere in which those who op- posed the system themselves became demoralised and to a varying extent degraded. Mr Prodi presides over a new and somewhat shakily assembled force.
It Is a historical irony that the “left” is now deemed to have won when it Is no longer predominantly or coherently left-wing. There will be .no lack of prophets warning that Mr must pay a h^er price for Oie support of the Communist Refoundation (CR). But their alarm is a pale echo of the anti- communist propaganda which served the ri^twing and its Mafia friends so well for so long. &i any case Mr Prodi can strike a — whether with the CR or perhaps the Northern League — from a position of some numeric and psychological advants^e. The financial markets have already set the tone with their judgment that this victory cf the “left” will saf^uard the lira and stabil- ity. So much for the red menace! This coalition is now regarded as more seri- ous than its right-wing alternative about cutting budget deficits, privatis- ing state companies and tightening Ita- ly's fiscal belt to qualify fmr Euitxpean monetary union.
Yet It remains a weakness as well as a strength for Mr I^rodi to have united centre and left, catholic and secular forces. His victory is less secure in the Chamber of Deputies than in the Sen- ate, and he may find it hard to establish a common denominator on a whole range of issues from state broadcasting to electoral reform. Nor should the Freedom Alliance — whether or not Mr Berlusconi himself implodes — be writ- ten off. The reaction of the National Alliance leader Gianfranco Fini, main ally of Mr Berlusconi and self-declared former neo-fo^ist. has been more as- tute. He has conceded victory with good grace and promised vigorous opposi- tion. Afr Fini is positionii^ himself for the longer term: he is a man to be watched warily. These factors could mean that the new coalition will only last for a couple of years. It is still a great victory for the Olives and a great step forward for Italy.
Are they worth more money?
Yes, but MPs are doing the right thing for wrong reasons
RULE number one in the almanac of conventional wisdom concerning MPs' pay increases reads as follows: make a big awm-d at the start of a Parliament so that voters will have forgotten about it by the time the next election comes. Rule two, which derives irresistibly from rule one. says: never give MPs a big pay rise just before an Section if you want to be re-elected. Yet here we are within a few months of the end of a E*arliament. An election looms. And what do we find? An unpopular govern- ment is contemplating a 30 per cent hike in backbenchers' pay — t^ing an MP's salarj' from £34,8^ to around £45,000 before the summer. Have the long years in office finally turned their heads? By any normal l(^c the Conser- vatives would be only too delighted to pass this poisoned cup to an incoming government. Why 'don't they do so this time? It just doesn't make sense.
Except that, on this occasion, It does — of a sort. The readiness to contem- plate a pay rise has nothing to do with any concern about appropriate rewards for legislative service. Instead it is all to do, as usual, with personal advantage. If the Conservatives lose badly next ' time round, a lot of long-sendng Tory MPs will be out of work. Their troubled minds are turning to their post-elec- toral praspects and. in particular, to , their pensions. The tea-room talk is of bow a big paj' rise give them a ' much better final salary on which to calculate their fiiture entitlements, i Tony Newton. Leader of the Commons. ,
is said to have been persuaded that Tory backbenchers deserve a reward after a miserable year and to believe that a nice rise will help keep the Government in office through to 1997* There is little doubt now that MPs will get an over-the-odds “catcfa-up” In- crease of some sort MPs’ pay is an issue where politi- cians should not cringe before the altar of public opinion even thou^ it is easy to understand why they do. British MPs are poorly paid by international stan- dards. Tteir staff back-up and office conditions, thou^ improved, remain antiquated and inadequate. They work k)i^ hours, both at Westminster and in their constituencies (though a we^ in which there are but a brace of two-line whips may not be the best one in which to make this rase). Higher pay might deter some from taking outside consul- tancies. The task of getting MPs’ sala- ries and conditions on to an appropri- ate footing is part of the necessary modernisation of public life, Uiou^ only a part It could usefully be consid- ered alongside the reduction of parlia- mentary numbers; a house of 500 rather than the present would be perfectly adequate and would save money. This will in any case become an issue if devolution and Lords reform are car- ried through, when fewer may be necessary. They should get the money — but it would be hard to find a better case study of bow MPs will probably do the right thing for all the wrong reasons.
Suffering from tunnel vision
Private sector dogma has sold Le Shuttle short
THE CHANNEL tunnel is a stupendous feat of civil engineering — but a finan- cial disaster. Yesterday's first year losses of £925 million, on sales of £299 million, created a gap between spend- ing and income that would have given ^tr Micawber apoplexy. Even if it had, impossibly, tripled its prices, Eurotun- nel would have lost money. Yet it has increased its share of the cross-Channel ferry market from nought to 45 per cent. Few companies anywhere are that successful in year one.
Eurotunnel's first excuse is that there isn’t a lex'el playing fidd. The tun^ was, ri^tly. lumbered with fierce safety’ ^uirements like automatic fire doors in each carriage, while ^rries still don’t have to install bulwarks to stabilise their wide-open car decks. Second, the fast rail link to London, making the tunnel really attractive, still hasDt been started. Third, terries can offer cut-price tickets because they
have become vast floating duty-free sho^ while Le Shuttle can’t sell booze on board. Ferries increased capacity while the tunnel was being built, trig- gering a price war that Is great for the consumer but bad for EurotunneL The moral is that mega-infrastruc- tural projects can’t be built profitably by the private sector. Never forget that the tunnel was to be Mrs Thatdier's proof that the private sector could do exactly that. Now. with the benefit of hindsight the fast rail link will be wen over 50 per cent financed by the tax- payer, to reflect the fact that £6 billion of “external benefits” to the coimnunity (like reduced pollution) will accrue which can't be recouped from tidiet sales. If such common sense bad been applied to the timnel. it would now be well on Its way to profits. Instead it suffer^ and will continue to suffer, from foe (Government's unique form &S tunnel vision.
Letters to the Editor
Those troublesome teenage years give ^rv^
IN defence of bis proposal to end child benefit for 16- to Id-year-olds, (Sordon Brown (Strife begins at 16, Ap^ 22) claims those who receive it *‘are more likely to be flem the wealthier families”. Hence, it “is a subsi^ for the school fees of die wealthy rather than an incentive to as- sist the education of the veiry poor".
This is simply not true, ttsc many of the tme mininn fozn- ilies 7^ would lose their {xesententitlemeirt. diild ben- efit makes the difference be- tween being able to keep their sons or daugbtm in furlber education. Gordon's proposal would drive many more fern- ilies into poverty, hitting par- ticulaijbr vulnerable sections of society — such as single mothers — hardest While he daiitts diat "25 per cent of 17-year-old pupils whose mothers receive child benefit are at private, fee-pay- ing schools’*, the House of Commons library, on the con- trary. informs us that the ac- tual proportion is around 10 per cent. V (kardon's concern is to improve the fmanrlng of
post-16 education, then It would have been very simple for him to say so. Prt^)os^ for better training, education and maintenance grants for 16- to 18-year-olds would be welcomed by ittuUtons of po- tential Labour voters. On foe
Other hand, the pit^osal to axe child benefit for 16- to 18- yejirbrtlHs igiTT alfewate <bem.
Furthermore, Gordon's statement contradicts Labour's longetsmding annual confermice policy to retain child benefit fo foil and upraie its value in line with iiifiatintn Only the Government wfU firom Gordon Brown's decision to rhaTige this policy on the hoof. We have alrady had foe hypocritical statsment by Peter LUley that foe pro- posal to scrap diild benefit fbr 16- to 18-yearolds is merely foe thin mid of foe wedge. We can be sure that the Conserva- tives wffl extract maximum political advanta^ teom Gor- don's rash error in the ruiHip to the gmieral electkm.
More fondameotaBy, secV ous resources fin* xovestment in edocatum, traio^ and Britain’s maDufectoring base could be Tnadft available wifo- out increasing foe tax burden on the vast majority o£ foe electorate. To take the sii^ largest potential source of fon^'on the latest official fig- ines. if the share ct dividaid payments in UK gross domes- tic iHOduct was reduced from its record level in 1995 to its level when the Conservatives came to oEDce in 1979, £22,7 billion a year would be released for investment Com- pared to that. Gordon Brown’s “savii^” are tiny and have
the disadvant^e fog* titey both affect a significant num- ber of poorer femHies and will make it more difficult to win foe next general election.
We now need a dear state- Tn^ by the party leadership that Labour will stand by its past pledges to retain child Tiawafit in foil arwl fond the necessary radical increase in spending on educatioc^ train- ing and investment not by pe- nalising zzdddlaiDCome earn- ers but by reducing the share of tte ecanomy going to un- earned income via Ihe CSiy. Ken Livingstone MP.
Diane Abbott MP: of Commons,
Landcm SWIA OAA.
Gordon Brown quite rightly points out the un- feirness of the cfaDd-betieBt system by comparing foe fem- ii tes of foe unemployed 16- yearnld and the Etrai sixQir former. The solution to this problan is to pay child benefit for aH 15- and 17-yeaiH3lds ex- cept thrse in employment or <m.-;VT .schemes, for yfoicfi fb^.iecejve a ttjdidng allow- ance. In feet thm is a strong case for increasing levels cf chiM hpTirfH-, as famtlwg on a'raxage income have fared badly under this Tory goyetn- meat This could be for by adic^tii^ a feir progressive tax syHtMiii and abolishing foe married allowance which
benefits childless cooples as well as families.
Jackie Ibrry. .
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Teddington,
Middlesex TWUSDA.
WE fihmild remember foe (xogins of child btesefiL There'used to be tax allow- ances for childrmL Socialists campaigned nf h?"** fotg b^ cause people who did not earn esiouifo to pay income tax got no benefit from the state towards foe cost cf ke^^iag their children. The diUd ben- efit paid to the bettoroff is a replacement for allowances which, in justice, they should othiowisehave. AdaTTemletL 4 Underhill Mobile Home Paris. Tiverton.
The contrast between G<x^ don Brown’s proposal and foe feet foat £3A billton cf gov- ernment benefits goes un- claimed each year (Mcmey Guardiau, April 20) is a wotry- ii^ r^ection on the labour iMdership's priorities. A campaign sIkniU Ite mganised hi conjunction with the (DAB, Cfoild Poverty Action, the trade unions and any oll^ ht- terested ageaicies to ensure foat the most needy claim fbsir antitimeent Chris & CoUn Penfbld. Cotmnius Coch, Macynllefo. Powys S^SLG.
A poor show
The declaration of the World Summit for Social Devefopment focused on foe need to eradicate absolute poverty, a condition charac- terised by severe deprivation of human needs, such as clean drinking water and adequate food supplies (Poverty, what pover^ says LUley, April 17). As such, the recommen- datiems made in Copenhagen relate principally to less de- veloped countri^ where Ibe absence of these basic human ne^ predominates. It is just misrepresentation to surest that this is foe position in this country and othm: well-devel- oped industrial nations.
Your reporter uses the numbers living below half av- erage income or below In- come Support levels as “prox- ies for poverty m^sures". This ignores foe slmiiflcant rise in real household in- comes since 1979. Using foe numbers of Twcoyne Support creates a nonsensical situa- tion; wheneiter we raise bene- fit rates, more people qualifr for them, and so on this defi- nition we increase poverty.
Furthennore, in any amass- ment of income levels it is im- portant to consider mobility between income groups. Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies bas shown that there is a considerable turn- over in the membership of tiie lowest decile of income — hardly indicative of en- trenched poverty. 2n addition and significantly, those people in the lowest income groups do not have the lowest standard of living when judged by expenditure.
Getting people into wcwk and unproving eamings po- tential is the key to improve Ing low Income. Since its peak in 1992. unemployment has fkllen by 760.000. In addition. Family Credit vfoicb I intro- duced. helps nearly 690,000 faffiiiiea to be bett^ off in work. Independent research has shown that families receiving Funi^ (Credit are on average £23 per week bet- ter off thim those unemployed and receiving Income Support
In the 1994 Budget the Chancellor announced work- incentive measures worth al- most £700 million which will help 730,000 people to move into work.
Sir Norman Fowler MP. House of Commons.
London SWI A QA.A.
Something to chew on
Your report (Parents who pacify babies with dum- mies may nurture dummies, April 19) reteiTed only to babies. Alas, wo often see duxnmies in the mouths of three-yearolds. The purpose Is not so mwfo to keep tiiem quiet as to stop them wanting to eat all the time. Being given snacks firom an early
age. they get used to having anwiathing in fosir moufos, and the dummy prevenbs per- petual Hapianda wltich foe children have never been taught to check. It is obvious that it inhibits the natural de- velopment of speedi.
Olive Price.
472 Rice Lane,
Liverpool L9 2BW.
Company care in a collision
Your Transport. Editor’s
r^xiirt^ of Labour's sm>- posed policy proposals (E<aboar targets company caie, ^ttil IQ was misleadr ing. Somebody smit him a copy of a document drawn up by a group involving TVans- port 2000 and Michael Meacher's aftiee a Umg time ago. He did not contact my office to find out if he had a real leak. He tiien wrote an alarmist report su^iesting that Labonr policy would (lamage the <ar iodusbr- This caused winrry to pecfole work- ing in the industry.
I spote to him the next day and told him he had been mis- led, simply had the wrong
docuinenL Wie then wrote an- other story maintainiag the fiction foat foe document bad any relevance. (^ top of this we ^ an editorial saytng it was a good document My real policy docummxfc will be made available shortly — we can foen debate these issues sensibly.
Clare Short MP.
Shadow Transport Secretary. Bouse of Commons,
London SWIAOAA.
YOU are ri^t to ask why Labour is shying away from tarViing Company cars (Leader. April 19). Althoo^ as the RAC says (Letters, April 20). recent reforms have brought company-car tax* ation much closer to foe real
benefit, our research shows tiiat the tax lost firom com- pany cars is still around n biUioo a year, forough eva- sion. abuse of foe “break points'* and foe under^ taxing of free frtel for private use. All of these micourage extra driving — indeed, foe average ccanpany-ear driver wifo free mel drives 5,000 extra private (2e son-busi. ness) miles a year compared with a private-car driver.
- ne car industry denies ail Qie evidence of abuse. Not surprising -- refonning the system so that it encautages people to drive less would force the industry to adapt and produce smaller, less pol- luting cars. Car dealm would have to stop giving big dis- counts to flf^ buyers ^ foe expense tflodivlduals. All of this would be In foe public in- terest and would even create more jobs. Clare Short and Steven Norris — bofo fiun- ously honest poUtidans — 00^ to unite to get rid these abuses rather than com- pete to defend them.
Stephen Joseph.
Director, Transport 2000,
10 Melton Street,
London NWl 2EJ,
Please indude afull postal address and a telephone number. We may edit letters: shorter ones are more likely to appear. We regret we cannot e^nowtedge those not ueed.
Men of letters
WOU published a letter from T me (February 3, 1996) in which 1 referred to foe role of tiie former British Ambassa- dor to (Greece, Oliver Bdites, in foe decision by Cambridge University Press not to pub- lish a book about Greece by Dr Anastasia Earakasidou.
It was not my intention to suggest that Mr Miles bad acted unprofessionally in relation to tiie advice given by bis embassy to Cambridge University Press, and if the letter conveyed any contrary impressfon, I withdraw it unr equivocally and I offer my apologies to Mr Bdiles.
James Fettifbr.
Oxford and Cambridge Club, 71 Pail Mali London SWL
(FIND foe outburst of letters on Israel (April 20) rather selective in their Judgment Did these people protest at foe inwasant hnmhg^Tnftwt ^ yp- •raeli settiements in the north of that country?
Harold Smith.
Gwendolen Avmiae,
London SVTlS.
A Country Diary
IT IS for foe nation, not Shnon to decide
whether or not foe monarchy fftiQiito continue (Mofoer of all our misfortunes, April 20). Recent opinion polls show that a majority fevour foe Queen and this Is esp& dally trae of young people. 54 per ognt of whom think that ftiiB foouid be given a more substantial role in govern- ment Almost half at those poU^ beliew that the Queen would "fake a better prime wiiwiriwr than John MtoOT. The Queen provides stability. The gtfwwg duty which has her to reign for al- most 90 ye^ serves as an ex- ampiR wUch is appreciated ferbeyt^ our shor^.
Sir Sigmund Sternberg. Sternberg Centre for Judaism,
80 East End Road.
London N32SY.
Though Slmon Hobart is a self-confessed monar- diisLhs does criticise royalty to a degree vriilch would have had him suspended. literally, in.' days of yore, vtoen 'crit- icism of a monarch was equated to treason.
He says: ‘Tt's absurd to tbinfc that tiie royals can be blamed for all our problems.’’ Of course It is. but that's not a point in fevour of the monar- dby. He gives examples of prosperous nations wtUch are monarchies, implying that monarchs are therefore gcxxl for them — but this is foe same logic which states Qiat if a healthy cat has fleas, tiira fleas must be desirable.
Hc^gart censures the queen for being ”m£Iedbie” and far “liviDg in a world of her own”, bat monarchs are lilm that It is foe institution which is ridiculous.
Harry Davis.
49 Sp^ Road.
Thames Pltton.
Surrey KT7 OPJ.
n*HERE Is very little ditfer- I ence between the behav- iour of the Windsors and foat of any usurper royal
house. All have acted repre- hensibly towards the igngHah; an have promoted and eo- couraged foe sycophancy nec- essary to the Of
their little semblances of authori^.
' However, wifo foe dislnte- gratiem of this latest line of usurpers there is opportu- nity. We can overthrow thaaa contineDtal Interlopers arwj campaign for the restitution of the true Anglo-Saxon dynasty.
Bryan Williamson.
98 Broadway, FVxnne,
Somerset BAli 3HG.
SOMERSETT: The “Wltan" or Royal Council met in what is now the peaceful country town of Somerton in AD 9^. A thousand years later, today's Parish Council is res- pond^ to li^ fe^j^ and practising open govermuent. The minutes published on a board in foe marVef square say: ‘"The Council is dis- mayed to have to 091
another application for a supermarket developmeat linked to the Red Lion com- plex”. The chief gmuTvj tur foe council’s dismay is the overwhelming weight of opin- ion of reridmts. Tte wmds “supermarket” and “com- plex” do not sit ct^mtably with what Pevsner of the most happily grouped urban pictures in Somerset” — a maiket cross in foe middle of a big open space, an ancient churrii with an un- usi^ oetagMial tower, an aptly .named Broad Street bor- dered on bofo sides with trees and wide pavements, he. side it foe Red Lion hm Clong symmetrical five-bay d^ressed rounded ardiway ... Venetian win-
dow . . , giant pilasters”) surprising not to have i nised this place as ^ si fbr a sequence in a Jane ten film adaptation. I1 evolved felicitously ovea turies with, cxamnli dignified Pree^^ School 0676} standing tntszvely, but very mu home, b^lde the Red but the current piawnir
plication speaks <jf "modiilcatioa of ex road lay.out". The Inn’i blazoned coat of am faded, and the snxlbce c “R" of “Red” has fiwiw> ^ only bri^t. new si foat of Magnum Securit hour cover), which < overshadows the' dis Effan Ronay -1989 and ' ing Club -1988. The pressed rounded ardn barred by an elahc wrought iron gate, clamped shut with a li padlock, leads to an grown, cobbled court; Ihe Parish (knueil is cl doing its best to see tl will be opened to die sort of use.
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COMMENT AND ANALYSIS 9
Diary
Joanna Coles
iT was, rm soreyoq*il agree, Edward's bestest sc^Sestlott to liold his auuna's 70th*ldrthday party at the Waterside Inn^ Riay, iUter.all, it's the ODly restaurant onMde to hold three HQcliidiii stare and Edlmew that Wstmrm didn't want much Aiss. (Bnt most of an, as slu made cilear,shedldn!twuitFex> or Diana in attendance.) •Bowniean-SPbttediaieii tiiat smneoDe should choose to ^otl his super-plan by ' ' leakiiiFalHhed«»£*ii«^tb^ press. On Satnrdaylhe Daily Mail rah an e^dnsive story miracnlonsly OQt- lini]^tbe gnettiistand even the cost ofthem^ (£100 each). As aresidt, cameras ware paih^ on the lawns atPray&mndawQ on Sunday, endat the last mln> nte the Queen decided to cancel what was supposed to be a oonfideufiel engage ment. (The ibod was deliy- ered to ^nndsor Castle In- stead.) Bd is now attmnpting tofindouttheledker'siden- tity. Alas. I can oflhrno Glues. Thefiscttbatthe ' story was bylined by one • Richard Kay, Diana’s conil- dant on the Ma^ Is unhelp- fOL It is, I am certain, siXD- ply one oniife’s increMingily UsaiTe coincldmices.
I AM thrilled to r^mrt the latest details of my friend Terry Major- Ball's trip to the Melboume - FIowot Show. X<ast time we spoke he was just off to Maxhs&Speneerto stock - up on boiled sweets for the fU^it. Wisely, be has kept a
fcg«>ftiaf<rigtfnyyqpi/,nHy
detailed diaiy of the trip.
Sit back whitoltndulgeyou: **Snnda3r: I am a little disap- pointed that Qantas can their cabin crew fii^t at- tendants, regardless of sex.
Tliaiionothlwgagftiwt mala
stewards but I eni<V being served by cbarmhigyouBg ladi^ and see no reason to be ashamed of it. Only a few months ago Iwas repri- manded for addressing afe- male perstm as alady. *Iam not a lady , I am a wcmum,’ she repl^. 9^ mofthm* wouldfindOus quite baf- fling and so do I. To my mind a woman is like a lAmboighinL Anyone can admfre a lamboifhinL That doesn’t mesmitfsyonrs and you. canget in and drive It.*' Warm, vahiable words. Ttmornuninrryhdsanac- ddeniwithhiapropeOing pendL
EANWHILB^Ttfad Frimkie” Johnson. . editor Of &&Specta-^.- tor, has been fendii^olftBH veqoited attentton. ffis admirer is noine other than tbe Roquefort-faced auflun: AN Wilson, who has been unburdening himself in the Evening Standard. 'TJkave fto-alongtimeniireed UD- wliolesome thongdilsabont that gorgeous wavy-haired bachelor, the effitor of the Spectator,” he confesses. ■ before explaining that vari- ous thiTigR have prevented hiinfrom'*conii^oat’*be- fbre. "One is that mia dreads rejection. The other is that Mr Jdhnson, a s^- con&ssed member of the working class, mi^ not understand my declara- tions. He might even go ' around sayinglwasa’poof. ‘shirt-Uft^ and other of: . fmisiTe names.” A qnidh chat with Mad Frankie, and be assures me he would say no such thing. *^My rivals are both inflamed and aroused,” he murmurs only. Most intriguing.
Queen Mary College is staging a confto> enceon “Govern- ment Acconutaldlxty: Be- yond the Scott Report”. Cost, a democratic £285 per head. Rules: Chatham Homse, ie: This meeting never even took place.
A NOTHER dizzying Em entry tor the Diary's ^Wdost Excitable Press Release: “From Essex County CoundL Lime Day at Cressing Temple: An Ix>- trodnction to Lime. Menr T.lma and the f bawcwi are you Will wck a livdy debate.” Zndeedyou will sir, indeed yon wilL .
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Commentary
SURFING towards a famous Tlctory,
Labour should em- bo^ the spirit of the timea Thw did in 1945. toe one -decisive capture of power they have evo* recorded. They seemed to in whan Qng
white beat of technology helped Harcdd WQson scrape home. They claim to in 193S, stoen they're so bold as to publish a booli^ eftaigwas -to mark a new mteUednal as- cendancy: Intellectuals for Labour. It should be a chflh- ing moment Nobody would have dared pttmose such an entmprise in N^ Eixmock’s time. Now that it has bap- penedL it turns out to suggest ^toy such selfefihcaiiait .was
pSTOdSD^
Here we have what Tony Blair has caned a “coaliticm of
fhlnVwg** TTiia arMiiiiMin
oonsisteht mantra tor e poli- tics of the thread centre-left” (ie not just paid-up Labour people), azid presumably itoat. it was siQtpMed to cflhr was a swries of tests transcending
too daily business, attestine to a Zeitgeist of -which the Labour Party is xiow sole pro- ieietoc.'As in boto.j9S5 and 1964, what might be eipected is-pnoof-of a bo4y of .thought reachjng.beyond imrraw Cli- tics and embracing many branches (tf.toe inteUeetDal dass in siQpcat of anew age. of FStorm. Bnt what we grt is an tmjnfwniipd ooitecttve, to to contempfated Ims-tor its
»«n.i*pmaTit *>iaTi ifgwtAHnBly
First, consider the ca^ of
aiithrtTB The 20 hKdude Jew p>rm*na, tntelleo-' -tnals. Peihiyps TntsJlectaal’% >M« acquired s mote
StfbitHnm, Tuit fha Iz
ffmr - -tfifa coaJUtioh.' is domi- nated by policy wanks and qpedal-intaw^ .^totoSdsts para-poTfticims; hi ,toct — > with -a personal brteraat m Labour being elected. Neal As-
rTytfsemi, n<rgid «mi^
rSiarlaa. might qualifr,.
and so would Benfs Healey but tor his longr ctmtaminat-. isg service as a Labour politi- cian. But in genual, this is not a gaihering of thinkers from beyond gpeak-
big tor a toskm between their worids — academe, literature, scteice, toe arts — and a new govurumenL.. .
In 196A as Fnison's party prepared to oust the MacmH-
MTiaffhi-rmigm^ aiwh
a q^irit of shared expectation was more prevalent A com- mon language reached through the chattering
dagewc- I do not tbiwir ihia Ig
now gpparent The engage- ment of inteUectuals is. for toe most part, limited. Like many otom, toey may agree ;toat the Tories must d^rt But their alternative alle- ;giance is less than positive, hi
toe Ttirviorn T Party
’Mees.and pedities fit togetoer oqpttotoetic lines, usui^ in xtni^ emtonnlty with \toat toe leader is saying. In this collection; Judge Tumim’s sensible reCaetioos on crime
■mrt piiMfalmiPin* otar^H alTiifwt
in eno^ng — and then only by im^Ucatum — the cat- astrojptalc errors of the party line.
Second, however, the intel- lectuals in question are not arrtir^ to blame. Times have geeafly dianged. hi 1945. both politicians and voters retained- great toito in the ppw^ of government to im- prove the world. In 1964. toe fidto of voters may have di- minished, but government stin showed unquestioning canfldexree in National Flans and all-embracing blu^Tiints. In 19^ neither toe pniwrim nor tais.piiblic anyrtiiwg but a nmdest. belief in toe capacity of govwmneEit to do very much. This is the age of Icnr ariri the pce-
vailing cautian is reflected by no one more insistenfly. than the leader of the Labonr Party. One absorbing political ^^ectacle of 1996 will be the workingout of Tony Blair’s
messianie self-bdUef in gen- eral agsingt’ his cantkmgxy self-doubt in ^artietdar: bis &ith that his Va* come, against his belief In the limits of what be can pitMniseto do.
. Perhaps even what he uxoas to pFomlse. For fam is toe third, and most su^es- tive, ivvelatxon m Btoat To Change: that the answer is, sqmarently, ratoer little. At Labour^ other defining mo- ments. this wee never true. In 1945, toe nation -voted tor a post-war socialism encom- passing all the m^jea: sectors of public life. In 19^ WiQsoai's vision of however
thinly held it later proved to be, seemed to reach across toe bomd. and in toe Adds of cul- ture and libttty bis govern- ment rfwffVqfl up a serknia'r^ cord of reform. But in 2996, whatever toe party rhetoric says, toe opportimities tor dis- tinctiveness 'are much
In 1964, Wilson’s vision of change, howeverthinly held it later proved, seemed 'to reach across the board
smaller, and the d«<Tng to it tend towards the fraudulent The intellectuals write against a background of mas- sive, accelerating cdiange: “toe intbnnaticm revolution, trans- formations in technology, glcibBl markets in ftnancs, business and investment, dra- matic shifts in. labour markets and <->iangBB at wenk and in the. finnily”, as their editor, Giles Radioe MP. sums it up. From macxoecoDttnic poUlcy to wel&re reform, modem pat- terns present chaHenges of which toe Major Government is Just as aware as the other
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Spring-cleaning
Italy has rejected the suspect charms of the right in a decisive vote against corruption, argues John Hooper. But cah the new centre-left hoid tight?
IF HALF a century is histocy, .then the out- come of Italy's general ^loftHnn deserves to be called historic.
It is not much of sh exag- geration to say that from, toe mA cf the second world war imtii the end of toe cold war, politics in Kaly was about jurt wnft thing; .Iww-to ke^ the western .world’s moet powers Oonxinuiiist party out -of •goverinaeiit- It- was the abid- Jog -conqeni not' only cf the (toristian Democrats, who dmiiiaated political .Uft^ but also of toedr patrons to toe VatTftrti and foe White Bousa An entire .W^ of- doi^ ♦hjnjfs gisw up. arotffid'toJs •irtgtp aim. Parties of toe sec- ular l^whii^ to toe normal, course of events, would have competed tooth and natl With toe C3u1stian.Democrats were t^led into joining th«n to cbnUtlon - in: exetienge -for a itare .in the. Qxnls of power.
With time, they and the rai-i*Kgii Demoowte to form such a homogeneous en- tity toat Italians conferred on them a gesteic name, toeirni-: ttvartko 'or “five-party’!.- In its ultimate, and most refined, version this system • even altowed for toe Communists themselvBs to be cut in as coD8<dation for nevwr being able to hold office.
The collapse of Comm» nism in Eastern Europe doomed this increasln^y -creeiky machizie to toe strain yard It removed, toe danger toat, by voting for toe left, the Italian " could turn their eomitry into a Cuba within Europe and toe potential cause -of. a tohrd world, war. And it aisp pusuaded a ma- jority of noimnunists to gfoe up on Manrtsm. so that in 1991 they transformed toe rid.- PCl into a social democratic hirn'ement. the Democratic Part)- of ibe Uft (PDS). That
it should have taken so long Italians to opt fiMr toe left is tribute to the depth of anti- communist snatiment which built up in the post-war years.
Id enter to get toe PDS into iwer, its leader, JMEsssimo
I’AJema, had to carry out an operation which is like a mir- ror image cf the one mounted by the Cbristian Democrats to kWp toe Communists out of it He alU^ wlto a pnogtus- sively broader swathe of par- tis and poli'tictens to the PDS’s right
-He linked up with the middle-of-the-road Popular Fai^, whirii is made up of former left-leaning Christian Dmnocrats, and agreed to let one cf them, Fndtesor Roma- no Prodl, be toe centre-left’s <3miHdata &r the premier Ship. But he also went for^ toar, attracting men like the out^aing premier, Lamberto 0^ 32^ his a^irant succes- sor, Antonio. Maccanico,- whose natural home Is some considteuble distance to the right qf centre.
There is, indeed, a touch of irony about yesterday's result. - Italians .voted for change. But in doing so they o^ed for a recast version of toe past — not a pentopartUo. as some I'^nriag critics ar- Huecl. hut a clennetl-up nnd
toned-down hexaparttto which also embraces what was oooe the PCL '
The Ibct that Italy’s new ruling alliance embraces toe whole toe old PCI is poten- tially its greatest weakness. Five years ago, a substantial minoriv within the old Com- munist party could not stom* adh the ditching Marxism and went off to fixm a new group. Communist Sefound- ation.
In the k^. lower house of parliament, the centre-left Olive Tree giRan«> will be unable to command a majors ity without from the or- thodox Marxists cf Commu- nist Befoundatlon.
One of the rl^'s wittier candidates, spealdng as the results came in on Sunday nlg^ dubbed the prospective ahiaww between the centre-
left god .Conmianisi RribuiH datlon a “Russian salad". *^e shall be very interested to see this hetert^teneous co- alition put to tile test," he said.
So. erne imagines, will inter- national inv^tors once toey recover froh yesterday's eu- phoria. Lamberto Oini could very well get tiie Treasury in the new government. But the reason why he fell from imwer. and wh^- Sumlay’s
glde^ amd whkto It addressBS with much the nmttpd armoury of pnHtiMi respons- es. One of the big dlStevnces frCBU 1964 is that nobody can teeteod to possess the Big Idea, or any ftietw rtia Great Ulnsion. uniter wfaidi tile left used to believe that marto forces in all timir vari- ety could be rmlsted. Shorn of verbiage, not only is the analysis made by Old Tory quite similar to New Labour^
but the remedies have the iMW» air of heteTOdoz unrer-
tainty. The caeoamon themes of this bex^ are practical not ideologieal: virtually every auQlOr, fix* aww*pln_ Wnrta a way of rirfiwfag education as the makeorbreak 'tet Sac a succesaftal Blair govOTuait. A basic point and true enough, but hardly the sniff of a zeitgsist-shift.
One idea of distinctiveness and substance does tenerge. It is the ease far reform of poU- tics itsdfi structure, system, our very dgnocracy. Amid aH the softkiged words like com- munity, stakeholding and their derivatives, that is the only reliable dlfiteence be- tween toe parties. It is vitally important But as the pro- gramme far a whole new era it liM its limitations. This is neither 1945 nor 1964. as the thinkers uncceaaciousiy con- cede. Then is no hard radicat ism they believe in. For that, one must stiU look to toe
right Pprfift iinil
apocalyptic answers may not be toe only way far real intel- lectuals to make their mark. But they are the way epodis eh«Tig» The Radice collection gyViiKite bow little the era will change: bow defen- sive, in the end. It may have to be of a social order whose destroyers will by tim be shouting at the gates.
*What Needs To Change: New Visions For Britain, edited by QHes Radice, £14.99, pubiished by HarperCollins on Thursday
election was called, was that Communist Refoundation oould not take his eotmomic poUctes — p<djcies it regarded as intolerably “anti-worker”.
Communist Refoundation win not be an easy ally. But if Professor Prodl can hold ti^etoer toe somewhat rag- tag army hahind him, thm he
has it in his power to win some famous victories, for vfoat the Italian people did on Sunday was something remarkfole.
In the first place, they sms prised even themselves by making their cqrious, hybrid electoral system wqtIl It was set iq> to pnanote a two-party — <»: at least two-bloc — system in which power would pass at Intervals from one to the otoer to a way that (Ud not faaiqjen under edd peata- paxhio.
That — ^ve or take a myr- iad cf political melodramas — is 'What has happened. Leave out Dtoi’s stop-gap adminis- tration. and the story of toe last couple of years is that first Silvio Berlusconi, and now Professor Prodi, have be^ voted into power with working majenities.
That in tum holds
out hope — if noth- ing more — that this immense i^- namic. but chaotic, nation can at last achieve the sort of political stability it needs to safeguard Its eco- nomic achtevmnente ft may be tiiat as Rxn21 su^ested in one of the most cryptic remarks of election night, tiiat “Kalians have voted for calm”.
But when all the qualifica- tions have been nmae, it is equally dear that they have done much more tom Just that On Sunday, they told toe world that they really did
want decency and sincerity in their politic leadets; that the drive against coiruption wlUch brought down tiie old order was more than just hypocritical cant; and that while they were ready to put up wito a lot they were sot ready to hand powm* to a man who was actudly on trial for corniption.
That may be unfair on SQ- vio Berlnscoru. who could yet be found innocent by the courts. It is also the ease that Ifrodi has a problem of his own with the law. Last Febru- ary. he was told he was under Investigation for abuse of office to connection with toe sale of a subsldii^ while head of the state bddtog cchd- peny, IRL
But politically, what was just as Important as eithm* man!s innocence or guilt was the starkly diffteent image which each presented to toe electorate. On the one band, Berlusconi, the eternally bronzed, immaculately dressed, silver-tongued televi- sion czar. On the other hand, Romano Prodi, a jolly, bespec- tacled economics professor who Often looks and sonnds chunsy.
The choice was between a man who glides around to chauffeured limos with smoked windows and ooe who euioys pedalling about in bicycle clips. Not the least supristog aq?ect of Sunday’s xesult Is itoat a mg^ralty of Italians turned their backs on the Wiaw jQ the IhunnalTia and opted Instead for the man in the bicycle clips.
It is ofttei claimed, most ofto by Ttaiiana theiiisel'ves. that they are a people be- witched by appearances; that they are content not to look below the surface if what they see on that surface is deco- rous and jittery. On Sunday, they showed that there is more to them than that
Homeward on the wings of an angel
Beatrix Campbell
IT WAS dawn and the bus was flying up the Ai towax^ds tile Tyne Bridge bearing our big, beautiftil boy. He was the first to our extended family's youngot generation to leave home. This was his first homecom- ing. And it was when the great arc of the Tyne Bridge welcomed him that he wept He was home.
The bridge is the iconogra- phy of Tyneside, its unifrtog symboL Unlike beer or the Toon Airny or all those Andy Can> stereotypes of Geordie- land that actually signify a struggle over space, exclusion rather than embrm ~ the Lads vs Everybody Else — the btid^ is not about lyxieslde’s brawl with itself.
Ironically, its Iconic status is growing with the demise of the river as a workplace and its rediscovery as. singly, a place, somewhere defined by the commitment to cemgr^a- tion and the convivial com- pany of strangers. Wild and wittir public pleasures are toe defining culture of this city.
’^meside has a passionate sense of place. There’s that bridge. There’s the language. The belief that dtal^ is dying, and wito it an identifi- cation with locally, is con- founded by lynesid^' own patois, endlessly modernised by eadi generation.
Htev the narrow definition of community as domesticity is (foallenged by tiie mobile communities of razzlets roar- ing around the BteS Maiket and the Riverside clubland, in Newcastle’s fabled passion for taking to the town, “all dressed up with nowt on". The ^orious Georgian Eldon Square that was bulldozed and then bunkered by T Dan Smith is appro^iated on Sat- urday afternoons by Goths, Heavy MetaUers. Puoi^ -vege- tarians and animals’ friends. The Monument Is evnyone’s meeting place. Who knows the bloke on the piUarf But It Is the commitment to congre- gation that has made an empty space toto a place.
Gateshead's landscape is dcaninated by toe Metrocentre and that scabby car park seen to Get Carter. It is defined by work, wreckage and loss. Per- toqis that is why tiie great debate about Anthony Gorm- ley’s Angel of the North sculp- ture has beccane so Inflamma- tory and so polarised.
The Angel will be built on a hump by the A2, where it will pass^ by 90,000 peeg^ a day. ft would be prejudice to repre- sent the row as if it were predictable proletarian philis- tinism. Don’t for^ 14,000
people wait to see Gormley’s Field in Gateshead, housed in old rafiway eheds. to Uttie more than a w*«nni. Amsztog.
Enemies c£ the Angel are most to evktenoe to the com- ments-bookatiBehedto Its ma- Qoette. The critics are remark- foie for two thing: ttieir abusiveness and their pessi- mism about public space. And who can Name them? Their ruinous landscape deriareK
thou Shalt not be consulted, thou aiMit not care. You read ‘frubbish!” followed by “well I like H”. Or "the birds will have somehere to shit” and “give it to London beesuae they’re shite". But Gates- head's remarkable and redemptive public act project is slowly ehfoglng the way we seetheidfoe.
What may also be disorien- tating about the Angel Is its stet sexuality. It Is undoub^ edly masculine. But thte is not the transcendent muscularity of the worker we see in social- ist realism or fascism or, in- deed, the public art of our Industrial hinterlands. The libs run from top to toe and swell around the diaphragm, the slender shoulders and legs, and tlim’s a modest moiuid at tiie genitals. Those flaring ribs suggest sexuality. Gormley says: "I use my own body because that's where I live" unlike a king line of artists who preferred to use women’s bodies. 'T chaltei^ the tradi- tional heroism of the male body in art; my interest is to wwk from the inside out.”
The external ribs izodace a “robust silhouette” whose an- gelic ambitions — expressed in its great welcoming wings — seem to celebrate both the en^neermg thnt is emblem- atic of the region, but also a humanity that Is always, and yet always mwe than, a body.
For some ctf the Anil's crit- ics, it is the idea of the mmu- ment, literally a landmark, rather than the idea of an angel, that Is tbe problem. The monument. It seems, would B^U a “nice bit of oountry- slde", which depei^ on the notlou of coimbyside as not- etty, like Tate & Lyle sugar, untouitoed by VuiTnau hpnii
IRONICALLY, the Angel will be anchored to tiie “landscaped” ruins of a colliery. ‘“Ihoufo not exactly a slag heap, it’s a dump,” sairs Gormley. to any case, it is not “countryside”: it is in a craiur- batiOD. Gnrnley hopes his art “can become pfot of tiie living experience of turning a site toto a place”. The Ai^l 'hvill be sem against the — to the light — in the place where people woiited to the dark”.
Which brings us back to what ixuduces a place. The Tyne Bri^ is sconrihtog to see: its pleasure and potfocy is in seeing, an elegant witness to and the emning
and gotn^ that are the mes- sage of modemify. Maybe the Angel of the Ncra will em- teace travellers with those wings and tell tiiem that wherever tb^ live, here is bomecnnlng.
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Molly Keane
Writing on the hoof
OLLY KEANE, trho has died I aged 90. was a delightful witty woman with a gift for friendship and liv’ing. She was bom into an Anglo- Irish Ihinily, the daughter of Robert Skrine. a noted horse- man. and a mother who was a linguist and musician, and who under the pseudonym Moira O'Neiil wrote in \’erse about the country-side and people of Ireland with much sentimental charm.
Molly was always surprised to fmd herself a writer, and delighted when, years after she tad given up writing wider the pseudonym M J Farrell, she found herself more acclaimed than ev-er under her re^ name, even in an Ireland so different Cram the one she grew up in and whose modes, mores and de- cline she had chronicled to such witty and moving effect
The story of the emergence of the inimitable Molly from the ghost of the anonymous, sexless M J Farrell is charm- ing and arbitrary', as u'as so much connected with her. She uTote the novel called Good Behaviour in her late sixties and sent it to Sir Wil- liam Collins, who had pub- lished most of her early works. He turned it down as being too black a comedy. There the matter rested until Peggy Ashcroft came to stay- in Molly’s house, perched on a Waterford cliff-top and fUl^ with felicitous ftiings, and read the manuscript. Her en- joyment and encouragement spurred the diffident author to send it to .Andre Deutsch. who recognised a classic. It was warmly reviewed and short-listed for the Booker Prize. Everyone — save her faithful devotees — was amazed by the emergence of ffus writer from the mists of another time and place. Anglo-Ireland.
Nearly ev’eryone in that Ire- land shared one passion, horses. Molly's brother, Wal- ter Skrine, rode in the Grand National althoiigh he had been badly injured in the war. “Everyone rode — even the most timid and shrinking of daughters. One was expected to ride as naturally as one walked." she recalled. "In- deed when I vas yvung I really* disapproved of people who didn't ride: it was the only thins that counted — it was your occupation. . . ."
She was educated in fits and starts by governesses until she was sent to the French school at Bray. A doc- tor diagnosed incipient TB and she was in bed for months. To alleviate the bore- dom she began to scribble what became her first novel. The Knight Of The Cheerfiil Countenance, and wrote it ~ and the next series of books -> under the name of M J Far- rell. which she took from a public house as she clattered
home on her horse after a hard day's hunting.
So apparently casually did her remarkable career begin; and over three decades, in in- tense and painful bouts of writing, crammed into a fbw months talren off from her precious hunting, she wrote ll novels and thm plays (in collaboration with John Perry) which were great suc- cesses in the West End.
Her career spanned 60 years, though her creative powers lay mute in her middle years, stilled by the sudden death of her dashing young husband (“a witty, happy man who loved old tur- niture, me, his daughters, good food and talk’1 and later, the foilure of her fourth West End play vrhlch was out of kilter wltii ffie era of Z<ook ^ck in .Anger. After Bobby’s death she sold their bouse and moved with her two small daughters to the house in .Ardmore where she lived until her death.
Her acute feeling for the secret life of houses, the mark that the years have laid on them, the domestic turmoil and passions that have seeped into the very fobric, the way the colours of ag^ past have run into the spirit of a later age. all these intangibles play a particular and powerful part in her plots.
Molly fostered the legend that she hated writing, that she did it almost accidentally, and she eschewed at^ analy- sis of her artistic imperatives. The legend is that she only wrote for money, an explana- tion to which she seemed to subscribe, though when she needed to earn her living in the dark years after her hus- band's death she could not write at all. .And her writing never was journey-work — in- deed. contained few of the in- gredients necessary for popu- lar success.
SHE writes of narrow horizons, dlite occu- pations: the preoo-. cupations of a mon- eyed, hunting, curiously dislocated class, floating over the angry politi- ral-ge<^raphical reality that was Ireland. When M J Far- rell was writing a genera- tion before MoUy Keane — Ireland, that old entity, was a place of Uiree countries, the new states of Eire and North- ern Ireland tn search of iden- tities. and this older, notional world of Anglo-Ireland, on the vergeoflosu^lL Ihese coexisting cultures seemed to have UtUe in com- mon except the i^und under their feet ^ shiffing as it is ~ and that extraordinary Irish climate, which as George Ber- nard Shaw said, “will stamp an immigrant more deeply and durably in two ye^ oj^-irently than the Enj^ish climate will in 200.”
In her books, which were as mucli commentary as presen-
tatloii, the Anglo-Irish live in apparently endlessly or- dained security in citadels closed to the unhyphenated Irish. But MoUy was alw^ alert to the sound c€ toroins, and she observed and iffe- served with gmter accurapy than other writers with more pretemlon to scholarsh^ the minutiae of the last da^ of the Irish R^j. az^ of a people who gave so modi to the country they lived in aTid took so much and never learnt the balance.
Written without nods to posterity, her novels are social testimonies, more valu- able because ftie way of lifb they recorded has vanished as a system. Yet somehow there is UtUe running; even as the world sinks beneath tbe waves dieze is gallantry and celebratim aboard.
Molly, ^es alight with in- nocence. told a good story about her penultimate novel T^me After Time, a tour de force written in her eighties. At a dinner party in her honour in Paris, the guests expressed toelr horror of Jasper, the hero of the book. ‘‘Quel bete” they said and congratulated her on her ferocious Imagination at con- juring up such a honw, “Mals Jasper,” she said gently, “c'est moL”
There never was less truth to a story. She was ftie most deU^tful of companions,' a connoisseur of beautiful thin^. a wcmderful cook, a woman who somehow all through her Ufe refused disil- lusion and in doing so illumi- nated life.
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Ciaro Boyian writes: Mcdly Keane described herself in a profile in tbe New Yortcer as “a great old breaker-awayei^’. Born in a Geoz^ian manor in Co Wicldow, wiffi stables, ser- vants and 300 acres, she first broke all the rules of derancy by writing a novel at the age of 18 ^ “pure as cocoa,” she said deprecating^, and spent tbe money on bunting boots. She clahned she had to break away as her mother had ruined the life of her sister by sending her to her first dance in "a sort of tennis dress".
Good form compelled her to use a pseudonym, M J FarreU. but it may also have been self- pceservation as she turned her devastating and razor sharp wit on her own back- ground creating a series of characters who might be de- scribed as Noel Coward noir. for vdiom snobbery was a staple diet and sex a midnight feast
When illness jmevented her from attending an award cere- mony. she listened with amusement to an account of the elaborate ceremony be- fore esclahning to her repre- sentative, “But what horrors you have endured!” Ste en- joyed life's spicier side and
life’s tapestry ... MoOy Keane's novels of file monied, hunting dass are social testinioiiies
recounted with relish her mother’s bleak efibrts at sex instruction. “There’s a filing men do,” she told her when she was 17, “and you won't lite it" Molly's advice to her daughters. Sally and Vir- ginia, was diffifriit “Bed is a friendly place."
Her own marriage, to a gen- tleman fermo’. Bobby Keane, she described as “divinely happy.” but it lasted only ei^t years and the rest of life was shadowed by his sudden death at tbe age of 36. Molly took her two small dauugtibrs to Uve wlfii relatives, where homesick- ness cxanpounded her grief. She returned to her borne in tbe Blackwater Valley in Co Wexford.
"I had tbe feeling that once I hmne everything would be all ri^t But when I got inside tbe door, I knew tbe house had its own grief. It would not accept me without Bobby. The most ghastly ex- pmence was walking the big double staircase. As a kind of joke. Bobby and I always walked up the difibr ent sides, and met at tbe top. When I got to the top of file stairs, ] realised I was abso- lutely anil completely alone. It was a moment of desola- tion." Even in her ei^ities, tears filled her eyes when she
Christopher Robin Milne
Bearing a legacy of empty fame
The fourth of A .A Mdne's Christopher Robin books, T/icHousteat Pook Corner, ends with the words. "In that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear w\U always be phiying”.
Christopher Robin Milne, who has just died at 75, told me in a Guardian inten'iew ne.arly 50 years l.*iter. "U’s still not bad prase." But for hun the idyll, passed on by his father to every subse- quent generation of parents and children. h.*id lasted no
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.-lATl the editor spoke and he said that the art department should bring ftjtth a photographic image of the Son of Cod, so that Time magazine uould look better than Scicsuxek tchen it appeared in the mapazine kiosks nf Sodom and Gomorrah. Xeic Yarkand Chicago. London and Rome. But the art department knevr not urhkh u't^'toturn./m-the Son of Cod had not signed up icith any their usual model agencies. Dclrdrc Dolan takes up the story in The Netc York Observer:
Then Pamela Jenrette. a Time make-upartist spote up. She had this friend, she said, who
longer than file contentment | of JM Barrie’s real-life adopted lost boys.
It was sliadowed by the memory of a parent who was emotionally remote, feom whom he had had to run away as a young man. And it was deafened in his mature years by the sound of the A A Milne industry, from which he did not benefit. However, Christo- pher Robin Milne grew up into a judicious, balanced man who reached a truce with his legacy. He found his own enchanted places in his
bore a “remarkable resemblance to Jesus.” She particularly recalled his “spiritual quality” (‘You know how some men iuive a scent, but it's nice?”) and “a sweetness around the mouth that men in New York usually lose.” He was off in Australia, as It turned out, wandering tile desert And, eeril>’, be used to be a bartender at Tatou, where, Christlike. he served the multitudes.
When Ms Jenrette reached the former bartender (whom men call “Scot Hull”) in Australia, he was thrilled to be thechosmone. "Thafsso trei'r(/.'”he said. "My mom's name is Maty!”
He flew to New York tiiat ulg^t for a meeting that turned out to be a mere formality; ev^yone agreed he wastheone. “He even does like >*ou woidd expect Christ to act.” Ms Jenrette recalled. "He's got this incredible posture and he moves real slow, never hurried. He just kindnf floats. He's real self- contained and not really talkative. He's all of a piece, you know. Sometimes cowboys live that way.”
family and in the Devon and Sussex countryside, which he used the femily name to try to preserve. la Dartmouth, he and his wife Lesley, a cousin, ran perhaps the best-known small bookshop in tbe countxy. Though, be looked
. . .There was, however, (»e obvious obstacle: His hair was an unholy mess, “nn . thinking. Jesus is Syrian. It’s not 1 ike he '$ going to have this straight, dead hair," Ms Jenrette said. Her solution spoke of Christian simplicity — a curling Iron, daftly applied tosundy necessary texture. His goatee said “East Village” more than “East Jerusalem,” and so. strand by stiand, she constructed a full beard.
Photographer Gregory Heisler shot Mr Hull for savau hours inavariety of outfits fftun a frided bladk Stanlqr Kowalski T-shirt (that th^ rejected because “it looked too murii like a Gap ad”) to a suit of chain They settled cm
a white, frayed muslin shirt Mr HuH owned fimn a production of ifizmfer. Ms Jenrette suggested he “fan around Little Italy" aa Easter Sunday in his Homfet shirt, that "it would be like ^ Second Comiim tn a way.”
Neighbouriy
JANET Paddock and Alfred Stephens discovered file new
Bridging fact and fiction . . . Christopher Robin real and imaginary: there was no idyllic childhood
qoeasy if asked to discoss than, the Christopher Robin titles were prominent on his shelves: He autogeauhed them if you donated £10 to the Save the Children fund.
Milne was four when be first appeared in print:
relationship between telepboto photography and community the hard way when they moved into a small Florida condominium complez with communal swimming pool. One afternoon, they arrived home early and made love on the gro<^ flocx'of their condo. In tbe heat of passion, they left the window-bUnd open, permitting a neighbour to secretly videotape tbe Hitiie incident witha telephoto zoom.
llie nei^bour took the tape to tbe police who arrested &e couple on felony diarges of lewd and lascivious conduct in fitmt of a child. (Apparently some youngsters mi^t have been able to see the incideat from the Gondtminium's pool area, bat in actuality, tbe children didn’t take the time to lookO Piftdicdty fbllowed recriminations, jobs were lost, and conununity fors^mL Two weete after the arraignment Janet f^Kidock attempted suicide. With the communist threat in cbeds, it sems people the world over are now
spoke of this and ^ vowed new to write a memoir. 'TOO much pain. Any one else can say whatever they like after Tm gone.”
After a long absence Qmn writing she fi^ used her real name with bar Bookte* short- listed Good Btitaatour — a black tale of nas^ people wltti goigeous manners. No one .could believe that the author was a flrail, exquisitely mannered old lady of 76. She disliked old age. "You sud- denly discover, wifii great dis- may fiiat there's no such thing as gettii^ old. It only h^pens on the outside.
"Sometitnes I get dressed up to go to a party and thm I bare to pass a mirror and Tm feced with this frightful vi- sion. And you get lonely, but you don't let on. There's the fear, always, always. Of the dre^ifiil time when one won't be independent I keep prom- ising m^^lf ru get* a deli- cious old queer to live in the basement J have a good social life and X have my daughter bat my God. wh^ I let it- self to the door. I do miss talkli^ with a ebum."
Her ^eat chum was the Anglo-Iridi novelist Elizabeth Bowen. “Wheu I first met her 1 just thought her as a great big woman spat a lot when ^ talked, but she was
They're changing Ae Guard at ButUdn^utm. Palace^.
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.. .
More lethal when boarding scliool bullies read it was:
Uttle bay kneels at the foot (f the bed
Droops on the Uxtie hands Uttle^ddenhead
Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
Christopher Robin is storing hisprayers.
“It has brou^ me over the years more toe-curling, fist- clenchh^ lip-bitii^ embai> lassment than any ofiiar.” Milne later wrote. “My fether needed me to escape firom being 50. His heart remained buttoned up allhia Ufe.”
He fought back by learning to box at schooL Dropping out of a Cambridge English degree to enlist with toe Royal Engineers, he had five years of dtettopiished war service. He built bridges, de-
egulpping their own secret governments to make tbe woiid safe fin: community. Howdy neighbour! VtnceLeomthepoliticsofthe telephoto lens in flrieze.
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Cindy has always loved flowm,especi^ly orchid&.’niat's why she
wanted to make a detour by the market to see the greenhouse where the rare species are kept Divinely elegant in a black pantsi^ Cfr^y attracts everyone's attention. So who is her fevorite designer? (jO^ ^says. “BrauseHe create our bodily appearance!”
Positive advice
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'faugtiy witty and .we became the most tremendous <toums. .People used to wonder wh^ she married hm* husband, who was nice but rather duU. She told me: TiteiTiage is like a train. You just run and run until you catch one and then you sit inside your compart- ment and realise you’re bored.”’
In later years she was tbe friend and confidante of file late Russell Harty and she was the ^mdlessly kind advo- cate of many youngm* writers She HisliiMd written and fre- quently deprecated her talaat putting It down to being brought up as a protestant in Ireland. “All the protestants were poor and bad big houses. We entertained a lot but we bad poor food, bad wine and no heat It was an abeolute duty to be entertaining.'’
Asked what she believed to be the importaiit things to Ufe she said. “I have come to believe that fiie two strongest mofivations in life are sex and snobbery — ■ and I do most awfully believe in love.” She was much loved and her death h^ left an tocalculatje gap to . Irish life, letters and coaveesation.
Molly (Mary Nesta) Keane, writer, bom July 20, 1905, died April 22. 1996
frised bombs and survived a blast of shrapnel to the head. Post-war he was still world- femous, but virtually tmem- ployablfi. Tt seemed to me al-. most fiiat my fefiier had got atom he was by climbing on my tofent shoulders, fiiat he had filched from me my good name and left me nothing but empty feme,” he wrote.
Faring fills bitterness, he fled to Dartmouto to 195L There he came to feel file name was a blessing as well as a ciirse. But he refused all invitations to revisit his bear. Pooh, who is to a New York publisher's showcase.
He is survived by Ledey and their daughter, who has cere- bi^ palsy. He used to build special fiimiture for her.
John Beard
Christopher Robin Milne, retired bookseller, born August 21, 1920; died April 20, 1996
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Time. ..a revelation
Robert Hersant
Guarded past of a French press baron
Robert HERSANT, who has cUed aged 76, i^ Frmice's most powerful press baron and passionate about spreading news. But be ' preferred to keep his own mo- tives secret
Alain I^yr^^ tbe former GanlUst minister and com- mentator ui.BieTsanfs tlag- ship.'Le'Figaro. wrote pester^ day that, "this king of communications commani- cated vary little. He did not detest surrounding his life with a halo of mystery. Even his words were broken up with'loQg sUteiees.'’
The one uotsilfie public ap- pearance by fiiis merchant navy skfopec^ soawas a 1982 television interview. .He wanted to moderate his fto> right image to preparatiohfbr what became a costly, short- lived televlslan chazmel part- nership with Italy's ^vio BerhisconL He had led astir Semitic, commandos. coHabo- rated, received a 16-year sen- tence. of national di^race, and recruited Freaspb former WaStei SS membms toto- his newspaper group. He com- maxted fiiat “AU there who know me a litfla are aware that Z was the only frenrii- man cCmy generatkm not to have been a resistance hero.” Bis extremism — an error of youfii, he claimed — did not prev^ him building up a most significant, 40-tlfle press ezupire. It included France- Soir and provincial dailies like Le Pn^rls and Le Dau- phlne. He delighted in buying up post-Llberetlon news- papm that succeeded dis- credited wartime journals. His survival depended on.an obse^ sive professimialtem and a net- work of backecs whidr .tor duded Francois ^tboraxid. .
F^iM's editoc, Fran&Oliv- ier Giesbert, said fiiat Ber- sant, who admired Lord Bea- vrebroc^ was above all a journalist who considered himself a craftsman rather than a boss. He drew up bis first newspaper layout aged 13 while at secondary school to Boomr, where he was pre- war secretary general iff the local young socialists.
After demobilisation in 1940, Bersont declared bis Pd- taipifim in bis newspaper, Jeone Flrant and wrote for Au Pilotl. one of file, vilest coir lobcraticiDi^ anOeardhe pab- Ucations. Ris fortune rested laigriy on the Auto. Journal, whidi he created in 1950, and he escmied from political quar- antine when the socialist leader. Guy MoUet, asked him to take over fiie party’s ailing Nc»fi Matin in the same year. Today bis gracq> employs 8,000 peojde with an anhu^ £800 xoilUon turnover. •
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Birthdays
Shirley Temple Blatdc, for- mer child star, and US ambas- sador. 68; Tbe Most Rev Michael Bowen. Roman (Tafiuflic Archbishop of Soutb- waric, 66: Bill Cotton, broad- caster, 68; Antony Craxton, pioneer of outside broadcasts, 78; J P Donleavy, aufiior, 70; Barry Donbas, pianist, 36; Harold French, actor, theatre aixi film director, 96; Air ^ce-Marshall Urn Gar- den, commandant Royal Col- \Bge of Defence Studies, 52: IHctoiia Glendinning, biog- rajtoer, 59; Sir Arnold w*ii, aeronautical engineer, 81: Jane Jopling, UN officii 64; James Kirkup, travel writer, novelist and playwright 73: Rowley Leigh, resteurateur, 46; Bmmadette McAIiskey, Irish civil rights campaigner, 49; Pierreluigi Martini, grand prix racing driver, 35; Tony Miles, Chess player. 41; Ronald Neame. -film pro- ducer and dirertor 65; frUke Smith, disc Jockey, 41; George Steiner. Ungulstis itoilosopher and critic. 67; Ed Stewart disc jockey, 55.
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ficom the national assembly and was elected in lase as a candidate for a run by Mittem^ In
finance his allsr^s flret presidential c^oapasga, terly Mitterrand was giren exceptional apace m Ia Fi- garo to respond to attacks. .
Qersa^ was a deputy ui^ 1978 and retiuTied to the national assembly m 1986 jej^ rreentizffi to® then presiuent Vaiiry Gtecard d’Bstauigs conservative Unto" f®** French Democracy (Uu^. From 1984 until his death he was a DDF MEP. and Simone Veil, the ftHiner Euitoi^ parliament speaker who led the list when Hersant vas riioeen, brushed off his col- laborationist past by s^rtog there were men who bad doM worse things under Vichy In Mitterrand’s entourage.
Hersant’s feilure to build a Murdoch-s^le media group
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because of the collapse of tbe television dxannd tempered bis amMHcmg to the laft de- cade. Bis editors, Irft and right, said he left them com- editorial controL Ihe sale of Aifto Journal to toe British groiq>, Emap. in 1995 was a sign tiie empire was eramhling. as circula- tions fen, debts grew to about £500 minion and Hersant be- came iU.
to. 19B3. he told a journalist. “In touth. Che press lias al- ways been the donuun of em- pire biuldjKS and they always finish by collapsing. 1 have no illusions nofiimg is eternaL*'
^rsant leaves a wife and eight children.
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Robert Hersant, press baron, bom January 31 , 1920; died April 21,1996
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Bell merger causes fury
Rivals protest at creation of new phone git
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The «24 billion vne billicm) NyneK and Bell AUantk: merg- er came under mt- mediate attack yes- terday from rivals MCI and AT&T, with calls fi>r Investi- gations from the United States Justice Departsmnt and Federal Communications ComhUssios. ' ’ ' " -
•Rie deal, vrtiich wtQ create the second biggest telecom- munications group in the US after AT&r^ was unveiled yes- .
terday matnlng. AT&T and MCE,- Where. Brlti^ Telecom has a 20 per. cKit 'stake, lost little timie te ciWclsing ftie plaxmed m^ser as a tbiietto omnpetition.
' Tn combtaisg forces, BeQ Atlantic and Nyc^ stand to take <Kie cf the most lucrative long-distance markets in Amorlca away firam tbeastab- Ushed- Ipag-distanoe cqnq»- nte^ AT&T, MtXand Sprint A . plainttve • statement from AT&T, which is spUttizig it- self into three companies, be-, traytel its nervoieness at the prospect of eompetitian from
a new. stronger Bell Atlantic: i "It*s h^ to see how new competition promised fay the TtalgrnTTTf^qnjgMfiQns ACt «wn
be attained existing monop- , qIwx simply fwnhtne into larger ones,*' AT&T said.. “The mcirger wiD deny cus- tomers the benefits <rf’hrad-to- taead competition.*'
MCI, for its part, urged the US Justioe Department and the Federal CommimicatioDS Ccanmisslan to examine the deal to ensure that it did not go a^'rnrt’ Open maikets enrnsaeed by Congress. It ex- pressed concern at what ap- pear^ to be a growing trend I tonaids consolidation of frie I regional phone companies’ manopoly power.
The new company will cover a -vast swaih Qf.&e east-., ern US; ■ stretclilsg from I Mafnatn Virginia, an area en- I compaiwtng. 12 states and .26 j million customers. The catch- nmnt area would include the ]^um markets of New York and Washington as w«U as
migor population centres, sudi as Boston and Philadel- phia. The combined firm, to be called Bdl Atlantic, will have a sto^-market value SSI bilUon (£34 billion) — the same size as BT and C&W, should they merge with armiifll oalpa of $27 blUkm WTir! 127,600 employees.
Geograi^ proximity will be an enonxujus ad-vantage as Bell Atlantic and Nynex ex- pand into the long distance market. By modifri^ the stAware in titelr exiting net- works, the two conqnnles could ha^ immediate access to a potentially huge kmg-dis- tance market
Soma 30 per cent of Amm> ca’s long distance calls m'igi' nate in Oe two companies' ttezitories. By merging, they have a good chance of captur- ixtg many of those calls. It would also allow the two com- panies to combine tlmir long distance siarltetfrg efforts, one the biggest costs in the
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Nynex chairman Ivan Sei- ' denbe^ sought to head off criticism of the deal on I competitive grounds. 'There's plen^ of competi- tion about This is an oi^r- tuniiy to move into video and long distance. We believe we will create much more cdioice for emstomers.'*
The unions also voiced tiieir opposition -to the Bell Atlantir-Nynex deal “Neither consumes ncm workers will be well served a merger," said Jan Pieroe^ 'vice presi- dent of the Communications Worken of America, whlcdi rejxesrats 70,000 emplciyees at the two companies. “We will oppose the merger wltii every resource available to us." Abouir 2,000 to 3,000 esn- mostly managers in overlapping fonctlops, are ex- pected to lose tiieir jobs.
But Mr Seidenberg said the 3.000 Job reductions expected frtun file merger with Bell At- lantic do not indnde any union positions.
The second biggest deal in US history after the $25 billion acquisition of RJR Nabsico by Kohlberg Kravis RobeitB in 19B9, the Bell At- lantic-Nynes: share swap deal comes on the heels of the merger agreemmt between Pacific Telesls in Califbrnia and SBC in Texas, earlier thtg month. Should these two mergers be approved by the US government, the seven Baby Mig created by the bre^-up of the old AT^ will Bhnnktofive.
The impetus behind fiie flurry of deals is the Tdecmn- municatioos Act. passed by Congress in fbbruary. Ihe new law. revamping 60 years of legislation, allows all the playms — cable, long distance and local phone companies — to compete directly wifi} each other. Local companies will no longer enjoy a monopoly in fiiefr areas. FVom now on. a long distance or cable com- pany can enter the market as weD.
Southern Electric chiefs in line for £2m bonus
CfiriaBarrie and Sknon Beavie
nENEWED outrage over executive pay and
1 ,300 jobs at risk as Power Store pleads with creditors
When it emogi^ that Southern Electdc directors e^anit tO rnake mOCe than £2milUon from sharte and options if National Powtt's £2.5 billion agr^ bid for the regional electricity company goes ahead.
With trade and industry secretary Ian Lang set to an- nounce his decision. as early as today on whether to allow; the takeover. National Power sought to preempt his dect Sion by ofEbring 960p px each Southern Elects share.
The offbr values equity held by Southern’s ibiir executive directors and the part-time chairman at £L8 million.
. -Options and shares held- under the power dfstnbutor’s- Incentive setamne would' be worfii another £«9, 897. Chief executive Henry Casley alone will make' £912.60iL. ' ^
The windteU igalns. vrtiich come on top of Kf-^tftmnm remuneration of £974,000, were condemned by
noger Cotew '
POWER Store, the struggdiiig elec- trical retafler created from for- mer electricity board showroenns, -was last night locked In tallm with creditors hi a. hid to avoid the a]^ of administrators which- wonldtlufaten 1,300 Jobe.
.Ifie cOniiteny -will announce tomox^ row whethter it has been able to reach aw. infhrwiftl agreement with its credl- tora.*Xf«dt a High Court beaz:ing on TyffWM^ approve the appolnt- tnen* ov administrators ficom tiie ac- coontancy firm Arthur Andersen.
'Xb a GonSdentlal letter to suppliers
explaining the company's pligbt, chairman Clive Ylotman blames some of its problems on **the enforced I MTid uttbu^eted relocation of the Normantan head office” which Ibl- ' lowed Yorkshire Electrietty's ded- sion last aotunin to give Power Store six.-weeks* notice to quit Its offices.
The move "had an adverse effect on the Wwawrfai and admiztistrutive fab- ric of the oompany at a cxltica] time”, he -writes.
These proUems added to cUfficult trading conditions experienced tlihroaghout the industry and resulted in Power Store writing to snppllers on Friday telling them that on April 12 it applied for ue appoint-
ment of administrators “to protect the interests of the bnsiness and the creditore”.
Mr Vlotman has asked for suppli- ers’ support in ctmtinulng to deliver products so that the sIm^ can con- tinue trading. Funds are being placed in a special account so fiiat these sup- ' plies wQl be paid fbr.
The company operates 16 Power Store superstores, acquired from LEB I three years ago, and 70 shops in York- I shire and the Bast Midlands, bought I ihr S7 millloo frt»n Homepower, the joint venture between the electricity . companies in those two regions. It also has a Joint venture with German computer retailer Vohis.
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Labouf. ..Buergy spokesman Jed^n '^ttie said thme was i “anb^ of cash at the top" of i file Industry while "eleetrio- ' Ity consumers' are little more I than an afterthought in the maricet power game".
Southim's shares rose Sgp to BRQg, below Natkteal Pow- 1
er^s oaesFaC £9l60 because hi< I vestors were- uneasy' about i -what Mr Lang would deride. The bid was welcomed in i
the City as the harblDger of new takeovers Shares m one of telly four reghmal compa- nies still independent Yoik- shlre Electricity, rose ISp to £8.75, and after the market dosecihlef executive Malcolm (^hatwm predicted that it was “more likely fiian less” that the company would, be In merger talks .within a year.
National Power’s smaller HvaL PowerGoi. is poised to
renew its bid tor Midlands if Mr Inng clears the generat- tog duo to buy r^lonal power films. He is considering a report from the Mcmopolies Commission that is widely tlKWight to recommend clear- ance wlQi conditions.
National Aiwer's chief ex- ecutive, Keith Henry, said the company was anxious not to appear to be forring the hazri of the Govwnmem In its
stazKe on the industry’s re- structuring
He said criticism of the power generators for seeking to create companies with cap- tive consumers -was spurious. noCuig that National Power’s share of the market had foUen Scorn 46 per cent to 2(kS5 per cent following the disposal of 4.000MW cf plant with
Baaasou's Baetero Group.
Under the offer. Southern
investors will receive a sec(^ interim dividend of 26.^ a share m lien of a final dividend. There is a loan note alternative.
America's Southern Com- pany, which last week ex- prened its interest in buying National Power, was said to be smn^ised at its target’s hasty move bat bldiz^ its time before nuking a possible ! hostile £8 billiOD-plus bid.
I If outmanoeuvred by ' National Power, the US group I Is believed ready to sell South Western Electricity, the ! regfona] power group it al- ready owns, to calm tears of reduced competition.
Some City observers ex- pressed surprise at the price National Power has had to pay to win new agreement for a merger with Southern, with its bid widely seen to be pltcbMl at a healthy premium of up to £200 million.
Others noted that It had done better on Friday in seat ing a £1.7 blllioo d^ to sell off power stations to Hanson. One benefit is that National ' Power will enjoy tax-free , lease income on the three stations for seven years, i boosting proceeds.
We won’t bail you out, Clarke tells markets I Uoyd’s seeks E31 m mortgage for ‘1 958 building’
Hyls In Waslikigten '
The Chancellor of fite - Ex- chequer, Kenneth Clarke, and the Governor of the Bank
of ^-wgiigT>d, Eddie' George,
warned foe maAets la^
that foey' would not be bailed out of bad loans made to gov- enimmite of emerging econo mies In .foe event of another Mtedcan-sCylecoUapee. *'
Mr Clarke the ptdicy- making committee cf the In- ternational MonetaiYFunff in Washtogton that commercial lenders ahould deveilmi' tfa^ own me<foanisms for deaoag with sovereign liquidity^ cri; ses. He said: ' “Immunity fipm defkult creates to wrc»g.-h». centives for private-^edtev editors: and it means the risks and costs of rewnfr
- tioDCifany crisis are borne by the debtor eouniry. and.' the official coduntmlty almie.” .
;- " The. move could inqiuase V thebuxdenofdebtooisoaneof i the worid’s 'most vulnerable i, ecoocnates, brause it sag' t ge^ foat tbe.markets xnW 1 exact a rilx premhim.' TiaA would reduce" foe value of h bonds md . wduliil 'foroe a r country lo issue more bondiB to ra|M» to^reqidred mnount- 'offlindtiiB
h ' 'Mr <3arfce, however^ wel- 1 corned s report published 1 aOeryestmday’sGlO meeting r (foade up of amUor officials. g represeijtfDg foe G7 nations t. and : other industrieL & -comxbiesjwhkh. warned -that debt
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. “They [to markets} should consider developing means to | enable them to reo^tiate i payment terms in to event ! a liqi^ty cilsiSr'* the Chan- ceOorsaid. •
■Mr George said: There is no question of the.GlO 'countries leading- the way on fids. We look to to ivivate sector to cany ft toward.’’:
■OK nffl«»la1a aaiH fhe Chax^ i teto^k^totopelany! tmjassfimi tot investing in; goyittnment bonds was safe mooay. partinCiarly in the U^tef a raft efIMFrefonns dfwigned to prevent enotber MeXican-s^le crisis and to impihve rescue measures if to. iffevention felled and a 'cure wane needed. I
Paulkw Springott
LLOYD'S of London Isizy- ing to arrange a £31 mil- Uon mortgage on the build- ing in. Lime Street which formerly boosed its under- writing room, property and banking sources have revealed.
Lloyd's* which has recent lost £ll billion. Is trying desperately to raise extra cash to fund a settle- ment offer of more than £3 billion for its loes- afridEen Names..
Several UK and Europ^n banks, are understood to have bOen asked If they would be interested in lend- ing Lloyd's around £31 mil- lion in a mortoege deal on tbejproperty. Imown as the
"1956 building” because It was opened in that year.
One banker, who asked not to be named, said be I had been given a Tiard I sell" 1^ a Lloyd’s interme- I diary who bad wanted his : bank to ^ree to a £S1 mil- lion mortgas^-
This particular bank de- clined, becanse it Judged the building, .which in- cludes the cavernous ex- I underwriting room, as ’’awkward” space which would require extensive costly refurbishment be- fore it could be used as a modern office. The building is divided by e private road- way which mns throng its middle.
A Lloyd’s spokesman said: “We are still looking to banks for a nxntgage
and the response has been very positive," He said the bnildhig had a boc^ value (tf £31 million.
Lloyd's moved its nnder- writlng operatiion across Lime Street to the modern Sir Richard Rogers- designed building in 1986. Bait the 1958 building con- tinues to house several Uoyd’s departments, such as regolatiott a«d as
well as the catering opera- tion, and afitness centre.
If the mortgage can be ar- ranged swiftly it would help relax the financial squeeze toed by Lloyd’s as it tries to finalise the Names* settlement offer. The offer originally stood at £2.8 billion bnt Lloyd's has now said it -will exceed £3 billion.
City’s Darling points the way
Weaver Brian TStevis, create the bobbto on agripperloom at the 300-year-old Wilton Carpet Factoty, which is celebrating its first year as a private company . American firm Carpets InternaticnmlwantedtoclosetheWlltsbtototc^.biitniaDagersnegotiatedaleasewithsiteownenCoats Viyella while-raisingpurehasemoney photoqraph- soger baubeu
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I HERE has been some
I criticism of L,*ibour for
I its failure to spell out precisely what it means by stakeholding. In the Spring lectore to the Fabians last niffot Cito spokesman Alis- tair Darling a*cnr .some way to providing a diefinition of corporate stakeholders. He makes a distinction between the primary stakeholders in the company — the investor, the management and the em- ployee — and the secondary stakeholders, who include the suppliers and the customers.
Focusing on the primary stakeholders, he identifies the institutions, who control some 60 per cent of UK equities, as being critical in fiiat the^* can help govern "whether individ- ual companies prosper or fell". They can do this in two ways: by acting as insiders (thus encouraging change for file better) or voting with foeir feet selling stakes. Mr Darling le^rds the former as to more uscfiil model and would seek to underpin it by removing legislation which prevents companies from sharing confidential data with their biggest shareboldars for tear of ftitiiTig of the in- sider trading policemen.
He would pn^HJse giving employees a bigger role in puWc companies by means of increasing employee share ownership. There already are qnite useftil tax benefits for such ownership, but as a con- cept it has not really gained a strong foothold in Britain. This is in contrast to the US where companies such as United Airlines and Avis have taken it all the way.
One of to building bkicks of foat success, in the Labour view, will be to corporate tax regiae. There are clear indications from Mr Darling that undef* Labour control, corporate Britain would be prorided with to incentives to invest absence of invest- ment has perhaps been the most disappointing aspect of this business expansion.
Money alert
The renewed intoest by to Bank of England in to money supply can be looked at in two ways. Scep- tics might argue that to au- Oiorities have only rediscov- ered money because they see it as a useful weapon with which to beat the Chancellor at monthly meetings. The purists would say that to money supply, as measured ' , by M4, has be^ sending out I duger signals for some time i I and it is time for fi)e aufiiori- , ties to take them seriously. !
The latter argument is slowly gaining the upper hand. The March money sup- ply data show that broad money, which includes money on deposit at the
I banks and building societies,
I has now been above the au- ! thoritles 3-9 per cent monttor- ins range for five months in a row. With each successive month it has been pos.sible to come up with special factors whfoh have pushed M4 high- I er. m the latest month it was the expansion of the still lit- ' tie-understood gilt repo mar I ket and the £I.T5 billion bor- rowing b>' Gran.ad.a to finaiwe Us contested purch.aso of Forte. But as UBS has noted, the C.VCUSP orspivLal factors Ls starting to wkw tl\in.
Certainly, the economy is starting to enter the dai^r- ous phase of the economic ' and political cycle. Produc- j tive expansion, feelled by a ' strong export sector, has slackened off. In its pbee, consumption Is starting to come through. The housing market the key to .my UK ex- lesion, is showing signs of life. This will be supported by income tax and mortg.sge rate cuts and cash windfalls.
On past UK experience, all of this means that we could be at the start of a boom-bust phase, lliat is unless the Gov- ernor, Eddie George — as has become his style — still has the confidence to take on the Chancellor lo the run-up to a general election.
I Market myth
PURISTS in the science of compriition once gazed admiringly on the UK , economy and particular^’ its privatised utilities. Here com- petition would deliver choice and low prices for enthusias- tic consumers.
The angry outpourings of John Redwood at the week- end show that the purists feel sick. He compbins that the electricity industry is being reshaped in a way that will allow a tew giants to carve up neatly sheltered chunks of foe market like the good old mo- nopolists they really are.
But Mr Redwood is con- fused. Any assessment of Brit- ain’s expnienoe shows con- sumers are not that mobile. Why has BT so successfully clung to more than 90 per cent of its market 12 years after it was forc^ to face ennpeti- tfena? The ads may say wel- come back. But tew punters actually wmt away.
And. as we rtoort on page 18 today, it is a safe bet that the same will apply in the South-west when the Govern- ment next week bunches Us experiment in gas competi- tion despite offers of 25 per cent cuts in gas bills.
That too is a motive behind National Power’s £2.5 billion bid for Southern Electric — wldeh' regarded as being at a Juicy premium of at least £150 million. It b driving Power- Gen’s desire to close in again on Midlands. And the South- ern Co of Atbnta. Georgb. has iKnight SWEB and now wants to buy National Power for to same reason.
'frade Secretary Ian Lang has to decide whether to let this restructuring happen. He may say no and win a sbp on the back from Mr Redwood.
But the chances are he will say yes. In an election j-ear, his main interest is trading on tomorrow’s illusory benefits of competition rather than sort- ing out past mistakes.
House market hopes clashed
Richard Thomas Economies Correspondent
H OPES Gf a Spring revival in to houring market were dam^ yesterday by figures showing a fall in pi\>pbrty sales last month and
weriser-than-expected demand for home loans.
Despite evidence of rising prices, data from the Inland Revenue ^ow buyere reluc- tant to commit to a new home, with adjusted sales
of 89.000 In March — down from 91,000 the previous month and 97.000 in January.
Rising values have pushed tip to sums building societ- ies are lending- l^ut the pick- up is smaller than at foe cor^ responding point last year, acrording to figures released
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yesterday by the Building Societies Assocbtlon.
Net new advances totalled £1,032 million last month, up from £603 million in Februart* — but below the £1.067 billiofi of the previous March. Lend- ers are now pinning their hopes on a resurgence In con- fidence on the back of this month’s tax cut and lower hacft rates.
The BSA’s Peter WUlbms said: "The maritet has sbbi- lised. This Is consistent with the expectation of .i modest upturn in to next quarter.”
The odds on the Chancellor seizing on last week’s cut in German Interest rates as a ju» tlflcatlon for drqjping the cost of borrowing fttan Its present 6 per cent widened after the Bank of Engbnd reported strong money supply growth.
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For a man who had just announced one of the worst losses in corporate history, Eurotunnel chair- man Sir Alastair Morton looked pretty chipper yester- day. So much so that one al- most expected him to burst into a chorus of Alwa^ Look on the Bright Side of Uih.
Not only did Eurotunnel notch up a ^2S million after- tax loss for 19^ but the com- pany Is groaning under a debt mmmtain of £8.9 billiOQ. and is running up intoest esti- mated at £2 m^on a day.
At the same time, problems continue to mount up. Euro- tunnel’s 226 bankers — who agreed to freeze the compa- ny's interest repayments last
September have yet to thra;^ out how that debt will be rescheduled, rumours per sist of calls for Sir Alastair's head, ahid Euzotunnel’a long suffering 730,000 small diare- holders, five out of six of whom are French, have stOI to receive a single centime in di\idends.
The Channel ferry opera- tore are proving doughtier op- ponents than expect, slash- ing fares to retain market share, and refusing to make the cuts in services which Sir Alastair believes are Just a matter of ttme.
This, along with the effects of the French rail strike, meant that the passenger and freight figures announced yesterday were not as good as Eiuntunnel had forecast at the half-year stage.
To cap It all. Eurotunnel has been dogged by a series of public relations disasters — not all of its omi making — such as the train which broke down in the tunnel recently, leaving shivering passengers waiting 14 hours.
But Sir Alastair. looking on the bright side, points to some
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of the better news in Eurotun- nel's latest results. For Instance, the company has grabbed a 47 per cent share of the Channel freight market and 41 per cent of the passen- ger market, and is attracting more business all the time. The trading figures for the first three months of 19S6 are twice those of the corre^iond- ing p^iod last year, with al- most ‘ a million passengeis travelling on Eurostar, while a record 50.000 used the ser- vice on Easter Saturday.
More good news is prom- ised: “more grief’ fear ttie fer- ries this siiTo.mer. a poten- tially lucrative fibrcKiptic cable link through the tunnel, furtbor cost reductions and, in due course, a h^-sp^ rail link on the side,
operated by London & Contl- nental Railways.
The big question concerns Eurotunnel’s debts. Sir Alas- tair was coy yesterday on when he expected to reach agreement with the bankers, but alffiough nothing - con- crete is expMted at least until September, more news may
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be forthcoming at June's annual shareholder meeting.
With only 8 per cent of Euro- tunnel's debts fixed, the com- pany is alarming exposed to any upturn in Interest rates. Under the terms of tbe stand- still arrangement s^reement must be reached fiiis
Ue^ite Sir Alast^'s pro- tests to the contrary, a "debt for equity” swap — where bankers exchange smne of their debts fix' a stake In the company ~ still looks the likeliest way of achieving a breakthrough, particularly given Eurotunnel's desperate need to fix borrowing rates.
Sir Alastair's dilgmina is that, apart from enraging Eurotunnel’s small share- holders, this would ^ectively make him the employee tbe ^rery bankers he now claims to be standing ^ to. weaken- ing his own position.
It was not soiposing that he yesterday said a debt-for^ equity swap “in the tradi- tional Anglo-Saxon sense ot the creditor takes all” was not on the table at alL
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£281 m gift for private railway operators
Keith Haiper Transport Editor
The first six private rail franchises have received £281 million from the Govern- ment to operate in their set- up year. It was announced yesterday.
As the Midland main line passed into ttie ownersihip cf National Expr^ Ihr **a nomi- nal constdeiatioa”, the rail fianchise director’s office an- nounced that the £381 million subsidy was cheaper than British Rail’s fiarecast of £S26 million for the same period.
Roger Salmon, the fianefais- iz^ director, said National Express had secured a lo-year franchise tor the route, sub- ject to contracts tor new trains by 1999. The ooippany plans to introduce 12 new die- sels and to open a new station north of Loughbmxn^
11115 shcnild mean 22 new trains a day from London to Leicester, and 10 mme be- tween London and Deriiy and London and Nottingham. The company plans to efier free tea and coffee and to improve Station fricilities.
National Express will receive a £16.5 miinon sub- sidy from Mr Salmon, but the subsidlie will cease by the year 2000, and by 2006 tiie company will be paying Ihe franchise director £10 million a year to run its service. Ihe franchise complements the Gatwlck Express line which National Bxfiress won eariier this month.
Adam Mills, tbe company's d^ty-ehitf executive, s^ he looked forward to develop- ing patronage on tbe line, ana to taking traffic off the Ml. The line mperates from Lon- don to Leeds via Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Derby.
PHOTOGRAPH: GRAHAM TURNER
can stiU press file nuclear buthm ^ tucked away at ihe back of the results announee- mmit yesterday was a state- meat that Eurotunnel “would have to assess the conditioas under which tbe group would be able to continue trading” if the standstill is ended before next March-
All of this is good news for consumers, who can look for- ward to another price war on the high seas this summer, but will give little succour to Eurotunnel shareholders. Ear them, the investment is more or less dead money.
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EDBO Disaer, tbe Faria, theme iNucfc operator, reported yesterday a 80 per cent decrease to 169
iwlllimi francs mlTIlnn)
in its IcKses for tbe openmg half of file year despite hav- ing to nstait r^ynumts mitsdebt.
Before taking into ao- count lease and finance durgeSt Ihe theme park
recorded its first six-month
profit The improveiiimit is attributed to faighw atten- dances fbBowing file radne- timi in eartrance toes, con- pM with bettor ooenpra^ cates at its hotels.
Analysts are now predict- ing that 11.5 mini on people will visit Disaesdasd in the cniTtttt year, com- pared with 10.8 i«nnm last year. Roughly 500.000 of this fi^iure is attributed to the draw of the £100 mil- lion Space Mountain ride.
Euro Disney is also thought to have substan- tially increased the occu- pancy .rate at its hotels, which diaxge between £30. and ISOO a night finr a tom-' ily room. Although tbe company reveals no details, analysts estiiaate the group acbievGd a 68 per cent occu- pancy compazed wltii the Paris average of 60.
Revenues for the theme park, which charges an en- trance tee of hbout £20, rose by IZ per cent in file firri half to 910 nullion firancs. Inereased visitor numbers ofihet the reduction in en- trance prices introduced last summer. Income from tbe hotels rose by 17 per cent to 819 mtlliiwi francs.
The problem for Euro t^aney is the gradual rein- troduction of interest and management charges, which rose to 288 million francs from 214 million francs fhe year before.
The standstill agreemaut on about 15 billion francs of debt ends this year, and a freeze on royalty payments to Walt Disney ceases in 1998. The theme park will fikoa have to pay an extra 800 miiUon firmics a year.
The^aik will also have to- contemplate introdneing another m^arride to' keep visitors happy. AIt'this,.ao- cording to analysts at Paxi- Capital Markets, means that Euro Disney needs to increase revenues by about SO per cent to justi& its sbareprice..
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SPORTS NEWS 13
Racing is 'winning its batOe gainst criminals wiOi ibe diemistry sets. Less than .2pa* cent of all horses tested for drugs last year
returned a positive aatippiip
14 out of 7^77.
Ihis convaFes to. 21 cases in 1994, so it seems that signif- icant advances have been made since -Brilalii, France and Ireland pooled their resources to deter the dopers.
‘‘We are confident that as the chances of detection are better th<m ever so the deter- rent is stron^r fliaw ever,” said Christopher Foster, chainhan of the Suropean Bbrsetraoe Scientific Id^son Commtttee.
*1 wouldn’t Iflce to be so rash as to say the game is cleaner than ttTs ever been, but the IllcBtihood the doper succeeding is gmaTlar thaw ft has even beoi,” be added.
The cost in this country of
maintaining this vital ri^ service, so important to win the confidence of punters and owners, is over £Z million a year and Britain is devotin'g proportionately more than any other country in Eungie. '
Yet this level m nwiaanwa^ is a mere' dn^ in tte compared to money being spent worldwide on develop- ing new drugs, an amount es- ttmated at between £15 and £20 bzUiiCBi per annum.
. Virtually all this research is tbr legiUnun^ medical poi> poses, but* th^ are sphHifb' edlich can be erpln^tci^ ^ »» less flthifally and
keeping one step ahead, cn at laast in step^ is a awiiniimj ta^ for the analysts.
But Prtfessor Bob Smiftt, the phannacologist on the IMti^ Xforsentce sirfPwHfift Committee, is piis^ sure that the “^xxlies” are maffihtng strides. '
“We can cope wiSrnumecr less anything thrown at ns these days,” he said. "A lot has been made of mgairing
Feathered Gale going for Gold
CEATHBBED GALE is 5-1 f with EEDDL’S' to Ibllow m>
f with EEDDL’S' to Ibllow op his Irish Grand National -victory in the Whitbread Gold Ci9,.last big of
the Jna^ season, at San- down on Saturday, writes AmChx.
With no penalty and the going . sure to be in his favour, Arthur Moore’s nine-yeea>old desoives to start fhvourtte. He has bera raised 91b by the Irish handicapper, but win meet Saturday’s top weight Jo- dami on 21b betto’ terms ! having beaten him ei^t lengfiis in Ireland.
The Thrasher Classic Trial, which . Ibllovm the Wbxthread, could provide Derby clues. Entries in- clude Hmny CedTs Silver Dome and the Royal Lodge Stakes winner. Mods.
David Loder yesterday confirmed that Bine Duster will miss the 1,000 Guineas. But he denied that she has failed to train on and pointed to the recurrence of a back problem vthicih tron- bled the filly last season.
Ladbrokes how bet 5-2 on Bosra Sham and have removed A Votre Sante £rom their ante-post list.
aewrrfg, but they are not pre- venting detection and are ovenated.
”Detectksi tectandogy. has enne on by leaps and boun^ but we must not get cQit and ensure that we 1m^ up our guard — you can be sure that wherever there is big money Involved jpeopAe are «»«eantiy trying som^ thing new.*”
To this e&ct, Germany and Italy are to be invited to Join the. JBurcgiean Committee so that the same standards apply throughout aU tbe major rao- mg countries on the conti- •'iMnt and more bxahis can te 'fbeased on file problems. - - ' The involvement oi the. Tlnited States is the tfittmate aim. But while co-opmralion botiwieu sdenfists' and ana- lysts-on both sides of the At- lantic place there is a ftmdamental difibrence in atn titude towards medicatkm for racebors^
In certain states horses race as a matter course with drugs in their astern to prevent the breaklng.of blood vessels and to reduce pain.
This divergenoe of vieim over what is pennissable is an tTwnirmftiiritehle mubtem .and, try ' as they mhdit,' no headway is bebv made to bring the two canips blether.
There have been many ad- vances, not only in tedmol- ogy but in modes of fiiinking. For instance, - mandatory counteivanalysis of positive samples has now become standard practice — some- thing prompted by the contro: versial Aliysa tetee and fhfe Age Khan’s battle with the Jockey Clnb.
bGstakes have been made,- but lessons have been learned and the efficiency of testing now gives &r less cause fbr concern.
American Football
Monarchs sack Hammond after record defeat
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The London Monerchs, who suffered ihelr worst defeat when they lost 37-8 in Frankftirt on Saturday, stesterday fired their head coach Bobby w«mimQod.
Hammond, 0-2 this sea- son and 4-8 Ibr his career, will take a player-person- nel Job with the World League office in New Yoric while be looks fbr an NFL Job. He is replaced by the Monarchs offensive coordi- nator Lionel Taylor, whose first game in chiuKe will be on Saturday in Dnsseldorf, who are also without a win.
’^London's fans demand a wlimlng team,** smd Gar- eth Moores, general man- ager of the Monarchs. **Faced with a disappednt- ing start we felt a ibesh face and different direction were needed.**
The seeds of Hammond*s dUmtgsai were sown last week when the Monarchs blew a 21-7 half-time lead in lo^hig at home to the Claymores. In the final minutes of regulation time Hammond's indecision over play-calling cost the Monarchs a penalty and an unnecessary* time-oat.
After the game the run- ning back Tony Vinson, al- located by the NFL's At- lanta Falcons, left the team compl^ning about his mis- use in the Monarchs’ sys- tem, while the Udebacker Ivan Caesar was released for disciplinary reasons after a reported showdown with the coach.
But losing so heavily in Frankfurt was the last straw. While Frankfurt’s ofiiensive line pushed the
Stoop to conquer . . . Mike Lalor faip-cheito Martin Ulrich of Austria during the United States* 5-1 winin theworld ice hockey diamptonship in Vienna yesterday mchagulecia
Perry. . . fkosty falling out
Monarchs all over the Waldstadlon, William the Refirigerator’* Perry spent most of the game on the bmacb.
Reports from players sug- gest^ a personality clash with Hammond, whose good relationship with l^rrj' had helped bring him to Lonfion in the first place. Hammond's conflicts ap- peared to extend beyond the players to the coaching staff. Re and his assistants were often on different pages, literally, as play sheets drawn up fbr prac- tice would be abandoned and then reinserted In the heat of a game.
Taylor was bead coach at Texas Southern University fbr fonr years and has 14 years* experience as an NI^ assistant. He was a star receiver in the early days of the American Foot- ball League. Like many WLAF pliers be was cast oCf^ the NFL but achieved stardom with the Denver Biracos.
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14 SPORTS NEWS
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VENABLES READY TO FOLLOW FASHIONABLE CLUB FORMAT AGAINST CROATIA
England set to take the treble chance line
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Terry venables
will try anything once and, if be wants to see how well England can cope with playing three at the
back and five in midfield, now is surely the time. Iziju- rles may force his hand In picking the side for tomor* row’s match aga^t Croatia but Venables still has the chance to gain something from adversUy.
To start with, Croatia play to a similar system and are potentially the strongest op- ponents England will meet in the run-up to the European Championship.
“I think Croatia will be one of the favourites,” said Vena- bles. Remembering how some outstanding Yugoslavia sides failed to live up to their bill- ing. such statements need qualifying but there can be no doubt about the ability of the players available to Croatia's coach Miroslav BLazevic.
There is a slight doubt about Boban's fitness but otherwise he will be the ful- crum of quick Croatian switches from defence to attack at Wembley tomorrow. Bilic. Jerkan and Stimae will play at the back, with Jurce- \ic and Jaml working the flanks in support of Asanovic and Prosinecki. Suker and Boksic. two of Europe's best forwards, will be up fitmL Frtnided Croatia do not fall prey to the inertia which dulled Bulgaria's perfor- mance at Wembley, this
should be the game which not only asks the most serious questions yet about Englaad's defence but offers Venables an opportunity to provide some alternative answers.
While he has lost Adams, Pallister. Howey and South- gate to injuries, two of the three centre-backs in his squa^ Wright and Ehic^U. habitually play in three-man defences for their clubs, Liv- erpool and Aston Villa, while Gary Neville has often moved from right-back to centre- back fbr Manchester United.
When En^nd abandon a flat back four it is an event Bobby Robson suddenly opted for a sweeper in the 1990 World Cup. using Wright be- hind Walter and Butcher. In the 1992 European Champion- ship Graham Taylor em- ployed Palmer similarly with Walter and Reown.
Venables would not play a sweeper system so much as a flat back three. But the roles of the wide men, prestimably Stone and Pearce in this case, would be just as crucial So would the newly restored midfield axis of Ince and Gas- coigne, and in particular the latter's defensive duties.
HyiK>thet)cal though the discussion may be. it is signif- icant diat in his column for the Birmingham plnk'un on Saturday Don Howe, Eng- land’s senior coach with special responsibilities for tte dtfence, waxed enthusias- tic about such a format ”1 can see us playing with three central defenders and five in midfield," said Howe, "a sys-
Bisham Abbey bends ... the striker Stan Collymore takes a bFeather daringa damp England training session yesterday
tern that has worked well fbr clubs like Villa and Liverpool this season.”
Howe also su^ested that Ehiogu would win his first cap alonpide Wri^L with Gary Neville filling the other defensive position. Ehiogu was an obvious Birmingham
angle but be has played at the back for Villa all season whereas Campbell, the other alternative, has usually been in midfield for Tottenham.
Whatever formatiai Eng- land use tomorrow, much de- pends on Gascoigne's ability to continue playing in a more
disciplined role which com- plements Ince, Sherlngham and McManaman. “I enjoyed fliwing in there against Bul- garia. doing my defensive duties,” said Gascoigne yes- terday. Boban may Tnafca his life even more interesting.
Fowler is set to start his
first TnatftTi fbr England hav- ing come on fiw a quaitsr^- an hour last time. Sberin^di' am’s ability to give chances, as well as take them, will again be crucial.
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Jess the calculator doubly concerned
Patrick Glenn meets the Sky Blue Scot hoping that tonight’s B international in Denmark will be his springboard to Euro ’96
lOIN JESS’S trial in the I B international against I Denmark in Nykobisg Fblster tonight is merely an extension of the one be has faced in e\'ery match since his £3 miUion move from Ab- erdeen to Coventry three months ago.
The forward-cum-mld- fielder began the season as a near certainty for Craig Brown’s Euro '96 squad. Now he finds himself with anxi- eties on two fixints — his club’s possible relegation from the Premiership and his own prospects of playing in En^and this summer.
Snooker
Jess, who has gained 10 Full caps and has consistentiy im- pressed at senior interna- tional level whatever his club form, has a better claim for inclusion in Brawn’s Euro- pean Championship plans than any of his team-mates tonight, and especially now diat his former colleague at Aberdeen Scott Booth has been left on the bench be- cause he has a sU^t ankle inhuy.
"Sometinies It’s hard bal- ancing the thought of relega- tion with the thought of play- ing in the European finals." said Jess In Copenhagen yes-
terday. “But I knew what l was getting into.
"I had a slow start at Cov- entry. when the Engli^ game seemed to pass me by. But I feel I'm progressing with every match. I got my first goal against Queens Park Rangers and that was a relief. It settled me even more be- cause. as the winner, It was so impartant"
This has not silenced scep- tics north of the border. “It’s only when I come up to Scot- land that I hear people saying I made the wroi^ career move when I went to Coven- try,” said Jess. ”I don’t think
Lawler pulls off the first upset
Clive Everton in Sheffield
|OD Li\\M..ER. a 24-year- [old Liverpudlian, beat this home town’s most famous snooker son John Par- rott 10-6 to cause the first up- set in the World Champion- ship here yesterday. It was the world No.-l's first open- ing-round exit from the Cruci- ble Theatre in l." years.
The world No. 40 was no forlorn hope, however, after some good results in recent months. He beat Stephen Hendry to reach the final of (he Sweater Shop Open, a ranking event, and took minor titles in Helsinki and Beijing. But for beating Den- nis Taylor in the last round of world qualifying he would have been playing this week in Pakistan.
Lawler led 6-3 after a solid
Sunday e\'ening session — Parrott admitting it was "as bad as I’ve played all season" — but the 1991 champion lev- elled at 6-6 yesterday and led 45-0 in the I3th frame.
At that point Z^wler fluked a red and gradtially worked his way back into contention, only to commit a push shot on the broLvn. Parrott potted a free ball but in potting the brown went in-off at an un- likely angle to leave Lawler a w'innlng run to the pink. “It shouldn’t ha\’e happened to a dog," said Parrott. "It changed the whole match."
Lawler went 8-6 up after a red-to-pink clearance and allowed Parrot one red in tak- ing the final two frames.
Earlier Gary WUkinson, a quarter-finalist last year, earned a iast-16 match against the defending champion Hendry after a gripping 10-9
Parrott . . . unlucky iStih visit
win OLor David Roe. who be- came the first top-16 seed to depart.
• Tlie tournament director Ann Yates is to report Ronnie O'Sullh‘an’5 conduct during, and his comments after. Sun- days’ win over Alain Robi- dou.\ to the board of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.
“1 didn't give him any respect because he didn’t serve It.” O'Sullivan said. “You have to despatch these people fram the toumament"
Sport and the Law
Ski officials charged over Maier death
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The two International Ski- ing Federation race direc- tors accused of “neghgentiy
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killing” the Austrian world champion Ulrike Maier went on trial in Munich yesterday, only days after a British jud^'5 landmark ruling in the Ben Smoldbo case set new
parameters on the responsi- bilities of sports officiab.
Kurt Ho^ and Jan Tisch- hauser, respectively Austrian and Swiss, vehemently deny that they chose a dangerous position on the Kandahar downhill course for the tim- ing post which Maier fatally hit in a World Cup race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in January 1994.
-Austria was plunged into mourning when Maier. then 26 and twice super-giant sla- lom world champion, broke her nock when she hit the Biraw-paddeci post at liiniph
near the bottom of the run.
Ite prosecution claims that the post's siting narrowed the run unacceptably by four yards at the fetal spot but Hoch blamed the pressures on downhillers to use ever fester and more dai^rous equip- menL in this instance the preparation of the skis which these dal's, he said, "are being used as weapons”.
“The accident was not fore- seeable,” said Hoch. while his co-accused Tischhauser said: “I am not guilty*. It was an atyiitca} accident.”
A guilty verdict could bring five-year prisem terms and hefty fines and would be cer- tam to be foliowed by dam- aw.'s efeims by Maicr's lover Hubert Scluveigitufer on be- iMlf of rlie amide's d,iughter.
I have and I don't think we’U be related. But even if we are. Tm confident 1 am stremg enough mentally to handle it and to forget about it as long as 1 get to Euro ’96.”
Booth’s problem relates to fitness rather foan intema- don^ form — he has scored five goals in 10 appearances, four as a substitute. He was unable to train before depar- ture because of the recur- rence of an ankle knock but is likely to be brought on in the second half.
Andy Goram and Jim Lei^ton will play 45 minutes each in the fon international at the Packen Stadium in Co- penhagen tomorrow «ight_ Al- thou^ Goram has long been recoj^iised as Scotland’s best goalkeeper, Leighton has
Results
been.in possession for most of the European qualifying and has an outstanding record.
Goram appeared to have spoiled his chances when he pulled oat of the intal match against Greece last August, saying he was "not rner^y attuned" for the occasion.
’.‘Bqt we brought . hM tack for '30 • minutes against Sweden in October to show that we wouldn’t bold any previous incidents against him,** said Brown. “It’s a trib- ute to the two goalkeepers’ comparable abilities that we should have to mate a tough decision. But that’s for later."
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Ma CLASSIC iHilun Hata Island. Scuth Carolina)' Pinal aaoraa (US unlasa Stawoi- aes L RobarB 66, 69. 63, 6? SSS M O Meara 6S 69. 65. 66. X70 S Hoch 71. 66. 6S. 66. B71 D Low 68, 69. S. 67. STS N Prm iZiml 79. 67. 66 65; V SntA iFl|i} 70. 67. 69, 67; T Watson 67, 67. 72. 67. ST4 G Sahara 66 72. 68. 66. R Madlaia 66, 66, 71. 67; J Maooarl 69, 66. 76 66; C Monigo- marta lOB) 66. 06. 70. 66: L Natan 67, 66. 69. 7a STC J Sluman 67 67. 73. 6K T Leimian 68. 76 67, 76. Z7B L Janzan 69, 76, 69. ee. B Tuny 67. 76. 76. 66. W Ausitn 72.67.67. 7a STTB Lehr 68. 71.66 60. R Cochran 71. 66, 66. 6A B Maylair 67. 73. 6& 86; OLbrtmSr. 77. 6ft 76. AMacSTBG Monnan (Aral 60. 86. 72, 88. STB N Falda IGBI 76. 68. 71. To. SSS M Campbell |NZ) 73. 69. 7a 71. SU S (^a l6^ 71. 71.
66. 2B7 0 Frost (SAt 71 71. 70. 75.
Tennfs
BBR9HIDA OPEN iPagat) HnaO: m WaMdnglon lUSi bt M FIlIppM rUru) B-7, 6-4. T-6.
MONTS CARLO OPEN: Hrat routa A MadiradBw <Ufv} M A Berasategu' (Spl 6-4, 6-4; J Nmrak (Cz| M J Bierttman iSiae) 2-6. 7-6. a-S; J WaoNrink (Nath) M B Karbacher lOer) 6-3. 6-8: R Parlmi im M 0 Vacek (CZ| 6-4, 7-6: S SMiaBiaw (Nattl} bt P FredrilBaon (Saw B-a 7-6; M rhll^iliniiisli lAie) M G SchaUei lAuB 3^. 7-6. 7-6. A NoataBli |Fr) bt M Goailnai (Gar) 6-2. 6-4: D fOU IGar> bl H Lecohie (Fr| 6-2 6-7. 6-2 P ManUBa (Sp) M 0 Narglsa HQ 3-6. 6-0. 6-£ H Ourap {Argi w J BurMto <Sp) 6-3. 6-3. P Nanai ,CZ> M T Martin lUS) 6-l. 6-3. S Edbatg (Si«o) bl A Co«rM|a (Spl 7-6. 6-3. C Costa (Sol bl A Chariotav (Rus) 6-2. 6-1. P Ssa^ tore (Fr) Bl E Sanehaz (Spt 7-6. BA M Gaatafaaaw (Swe) bl O Uarttnaz (Spl 6-4, 6-2
CUP (Hyatt La Manga auB Sp JAtefaBt ~ ■
Buropa/AfflBB feanm taeum BMi 'taal Ai Rataua s, Oran Britain 1 |GB OraB S Bmilb lEasea) U T Ignallava 6-2. 6-3: C Wood {SusaaxI loal tc N Zhainim 7-A *-6. 6-S Wood/V Lake (Devon) leal « Zv*,^ awa/lgwatlew 7-5. 7-a Ruasia 3, Siove- ma a
Baseball
AnRWAHLBACUtaCiaiiaiand 11. B«- BMi 7; Minnasota S. New Vorh 9: Kanan City 4, MUwauhea 5, ta«as 9. Battbiwra 6: OaMand 6. Chicago 5: SaaHeO, ToroirtB& CdiBomia 6. DatreU S Standtaiyat Baal- •tM 1, Bainmeta IW11. IS. Pei£47. GBa: 2, New Yvk (B-7-S3H>: 3, Toronto A-tfr 444.3)0: 4. Dairoii Ol^JOa4a: 5. Boaion tS-lSsl67-8IH. Cantak 1. Cleiraund (WiB. Lfi. M.6aS. QBO); 2. MiliMima (104>.62&- Oi; 3. Chicago rs^ATiOO. 4. MttmesoCa 17-g- 438,3). S. Kansas City |5-13-.27B«). Wnaiams 1. Teus (W13, L4, PcLTe, (SOL L SeaNa (I3-6-.884-1), 3. CaMornia I1O4..S66O30: 4, Oakland (7-10-.413-6). NATIONAL UAOUe Ap«mU t. Son Qietai 3 (in IS); Monmai S. PUtaurgh 4, PhlladciplM 4, ei Louis 2: New Yoric a. CoiQrade 6: Chicaga 6 San Pranewo 7. Houston 7. CineinruB 6: F)onda 5 LA 4. Standtogsi Baatanu i. Moniraai (Wll. L7 Pci 611. QBQi; 2, Atlania a. PiDlodcinhia (6^471-SXL 4, Florida (8- 11-42I.3S). S. New Vorh |6-1V.3I3^ Cawah I, SI LiWB IWII. LS PztSH. GB8l 2 ChiCJito iKL^.SSe-Ll 3 Cmcw- naii lO-g. 630. Ui 4 Houston i94.500-l8). 6 PiisDu.'^b i8>iC*444.2S(> Weatena L San Diego iVl II L7 P«l.6ll GB3l. 9, San Fr,nee.X ill>4.&5u-li 3. Cotoraoe i9-!V J7I.31| J LA la-ll- J2i-3>i '
Cricket
TerLBVS SHKLD
CtiaimaTui* England A won by MglU Mckais.
THE RBSTi Rrsi limlngs 123 (Munton 4-U).
■NINJLND Ai Flr« InMnga 317 (T A Uun- ton 54; Chappie S-60L
Saoowd btatasa (ovemigttt 1S8-4)
G P Thofpe not out . . 141
*tRC Ruaaall eSaUabury b Uunion a M WalKlDaon c B b Irani 3S
G Chappla B Rollins b Irani 1
B K UimpNwlb e Knighi B Miuun a
P M Hiitohtan Ibw b Gtodins 0
J D Lawry e Irani b GlddlriB G
Extraa (bi3. Ib7. nbS) - EE
Total (85 ovars) asa
FaEoonb 12& 223. 236. 244. 246. Rowlings Giddins 21-6-80-4: Munton 21-6-64-3: Stamp 10-2-46-0: Irani 15-2-63-2: SallaDwy 16-4-40-1. BNOLANDA
N V Kru^ not out aa
A McGratti e Chapplo b Lawy •
*N Huaaam bHulBtitoon 13
J C Poolay not out ' O Ealraa (1B2},. 3
Toial (tor 2. 11.1 owacsi -.i— «0
Pf aC wlefcatat 15. 53
BewHngi Lawry 6-1-18-1; Huiehlaon 5.1-0-39-1; Tlmpe V-O-ML PMET TEST rBrMgatowfi}; New Zealand 195 Alto 151-4 (N talB S2noi Blahap 2-19L Weal (ndiea 472 IS Campban 206, S Chan- dwpaui 32: Lataan 3-781.
THRBtaOAV HATCH iFannpr'a): Darby- ahlra 2B7-t dec (r A TwpMs 8Rio. D M Jonai 71. C J Adams 54) and 327-2 (A 3 Roiatw 112. D G Cork 101). Cambrldga Lhhwraliy 329-7 dae iw J Hooaa U6. B Q Caha i02no. 6 T Smllh 54). Maich drawn. amBR HATCH tow TrWIord): YortaMta 14S (aroan 4-22). LanosaMra tdS-r.' Lao- d^ira wen by ^ wMialB.
SECOND NLNVBN CMAMPIONEMPi Cmitaihaij- Laneaalilra 431-6 dae (P C MriCaown' 175, N T Wood 140). K«ll 22-0. Kwoiwla Bwd PsnlilBm Darb^lra 291-3 (T J Q O'Gorman MSno. M R May 32) v WarwtGhriitta. TiiaAara Nottkighltnistiha 230-8 |U ft warn 68) v SomaraaL
Dave sexton, the-Eng- laud nnder-21 coach, has named eight uncapped players in his squad .for tonight’s fSnendly with Czo- aiia at Sunderland.
Six of his original party are missisg for a vaxiely of reasons and only Kevin Gallen of QjPR, Crystal Fair ace’s Bruce Dyer and Chris Holland Newcastle, have played at fiiis level Bobby Gould. Wales’s manager, has denied renew^ specnlafion of a rift with Ian. Rush after ao- cepting a request from his country’s reexurd scorer not to play in the opening World Cup quaUfim: In San Marino in June. Gould, pre- paring for tomorrow’s hien^y In Switzerland,
Basketball
NBAi BoMon 111. Now York 122; Terento 106, Rrtladalphto igg (oQ: WoNitngton 93. Chtaago lOS; ChartoHo 103 Ortondo 1U; Dmmr 86. Btftttlh 68: Hbupnn 118. Phoe- nix 110: todtone 39. Clewtond 63: Stn An- toirio 98, Dftita I03i LA CIlppHb 101, Van- eouw 10K Miami 9t AMnta IGt; D6P«lt 103 MnwaukM 92: Peritond 86, LA LNcwB 8C Sftaunwnto *07, Goldan atiH wa Hnal staMAigH Bhuton CaidhiannH AWmWIfi; 1. ‘OriHide (W63 L23 PcL733 GBOk 2. tN«* Ycric (47-35-S78-in: 3 ■Hdlaml (424(K512-'ie); 4, WaNllngton (36- 43-ATfreiJ; BONDh (3349-.4(Be7); 6. New -may (8052-06030): 7. PhtadelpMa (1844-020-42). Cl mi Ml 1, SCtilcwo (W72. L10, PCL873 G80); 2. ttodtaa (533ILA34- 20); 3. tClevNend (47-35-a73-^; 4. tAt- lania (4846-061-2Q: 3 TDairoit (433B- 061-26); 6. Ghvtofie (41-41-03081):. 7. MOwMAae (26-W-.30&4^ 3 Tononta (21- 61-266-51). W— tarn CHriaeMlBH IH«- weta 1. *San Anianto (W86. L23 PcL720. GBO): 3 tUtoh (6Bg7-A7l-R: 3 iHeiwBi I4-34-.M5-11): 4. Denw P5-i7-A27-24i: 3 MtonwoB (26-53.317-33); 3 Dalta (26- 86-ai7-33): 7. Vancouver (1S«7-.18»<t4L PweWta 1. lOeetUa (W64. L13 Pei7B3 G6(D: 3 tLA Leliara (S3-2B'.646-lll: 3 IftorHVM (44-30-837-30): 4, -tRiOMilx (4f- 41-.SD083),' 3 tSurariWfiiB (3B43s47B- 26); 3 GoMm Stato (3046-.43B88); 7, LA Clippeih I29 63-.35436L TdlncTta vIttveS pieca. 'CSndMd dWWen titta. fCllnebad CaiKerMiee ttOe.
also rejected suggestious that .Bush no longer -wanted to play for lus country- The RepubUc of Ireland manaser Mfok. .MeCaithy has been left with a straight choice between litverpool’s Mark Kennedy and the uncapped Alan Moore of Mlddl^brot^ as I^Ball Quinn'S striking part- ner. in Prague tomorrow. Neither is a recognised
iriflrricCTiimi-
ENGLAND U-A1i Any (Tottenham); (Man Ctty}. ariFocm (SheR WM).
0*000110* {ewtoni}. Mutae (Ctierlton). TtaetaAer (MUtwelQ. Caeta-(Miin Uid). P«r« (Leeds). Gan** (OPR). Dywr (Cryetel PaJsoe). HoAid (Nawctala). 'WALNS 'iv Bwlizerlan'd. Lugioo.
tonwrppw):
(ChMll^.
CTieninare); 1
. - (Men Clly).
(Norwich}, CwlHwew (Sladlibuni). Legg (Btombighua), Aowea (WttnWadcnL Homm (Evenon). PMabertm (Shed Wed), (Athmi). Yhglor (ShaO ui^
Ice Hockey
WORUy- CHAMWORtaWP, Itaap Ai iMMd Btatos 3 Auettla 1. QiWta ta Italy 3 France 3
NHL PUIV-OPPS: Rmt iwtadk rirtim Cenitaewem MoniresI 1. NY Rangers 2 (Mcniraai lead ssnss 2-1): Tmpa Bs)r 3 Fhitodeiidtis * (at Tsiigia Bay iaad>-1|.
iim Bay lead z-i). H mml^ 4. Oseeli
1 (DairQMletaaarlea2-l):Calm3CM- cage 7 (CMeage isatf 8i Loue 3 Tvonto 2 (St Ldub wad sartee 3-1).
Snooker. -
■MEHT1Y wnmn champwnship.
(BigiMbaM^iB) io-a»t4wta(B(tB) M -TPerrotl (&igl 10-3'
Pools Forecast
IW
M»lC
3 . a Bidtaii
4 QM
6 BhcMWM
a '
r CMImb V Coveivy
Tranmera
Banwley
BNDSUICH LSAQIIB FIRST DIVtS ION 8 V
6 UftM V
10 MUnal V
11 Merwleli v Wailord
IS PonVale v Ckmem
15 Pirtvwiiiiilh w ttaWtah
14 Ruin 6 • e SMIlUW
Id SuiiiliauJ V OMiam
SECOND HVtSMN
16 Wceiinml
17 BeenHtaoaSi
15 BrsOlordC 19 BrigMow SO.BiMtalC SI Cl eta SS HatteCo' '
53 PetarboraoMi
54 SbfBwebary 29 8tadtonri
26 VRajAaoi
27 Wyeetabe
THRU DIVISION
28 CawdM as rmnwgien
T WalaNI
V (Siesureeid
V Branttom
V York
tf Rotharram w Odribrd
V Swansa « (till .
V MMeHtm
V Bun^
V Cariale
HereJoiil
Chmer •
30 Doneaeter at Eaeier as Ttawa 33 HaiTapool' •4 LQrlam
37 Ftachdala M .BcarBoraugh SB '
V CemtoWge
BEU.'E SCOTTBH PREMIER DnmON
40 pB8drk • tf Mbarataa- X
41 Heevta- V KHmarnoek 1
4B Pamdr V OMHe a
4SIWSillwta V McEitawaE a
seomsH FIRST DnnsMM
44 Airdrie v IheidM 2
48 Dtoelwi* V Mammon 1
46 Dumbarton « Mnitan S
<7 Pandee UM w DanItamBM x
48 St lataiitana v aMbran 1
SGcmcH SEeeMo DwawH
49 AyrUU V batRfa t
90 Forfar v CliMh 8
SI OBaaneCSEi v UontroM 1
S3 SUMig A * BanMi 1
S3 Sbanraar v StataewMOMdrS
SCOrnSHTtORD DfVIStON 64 AMonRm tf Mloa T
55 flVinftbi V ClManiai 1
56 ffawdftwhaalh « Queenta 1
57 Uytagataw v Arbraattl 1
SB Rasa V EastSttrling 1
V^Vata
Fixtures
(7 JO unless Hand)
Soccer
U-S1 nsENOLVi England w Ooada
(TASf.
Port Vale « Luton (7A5); Wattord v Grimsby OA8). Secend DMataH Burnley y Bristol Rvrs; Carlisle v Ybrfc (7.46); Ctne- tarlleM tf Swfndon (7A5): Notts Co « Brlgli- ton {7.49; Orierd IM v Bhrewabiey (7.^; flotfwfham «r Stoelto^ MfiMI v HUH (TAS). TIM BWHsm Oieenr v Nonti- ainpta: llerelord v Dariingon; MaraRsId V Torquay (7A5I: SeunOwrpe « Donesater.
Ml VAinOIALL COHPSRB
Alliln^
ham V Bto^rbridga (7A6): RrnmORi V Norm- wKh (7A6I; WeUmg V Kataring {7A5>. URBOND UBAGUta Priialar DtvMoa Bualon * Barrow; Choriey « AcerlnslDn Stanley: Gmlegr v Colwyn Bey. Rrlddey v Spennyritoor; Leek Town v Bceton Uefc Marine v Wbstand (M. Aai BStMtata (tagletan Tn v FleeiwDod: Wem v (3t Harwood Tn; RadcHRe Bor v Eastwood Tn: WhiueyRay « Lincoln uid. icn LEAGUNi Proariar BMoIcm Ayte» tniiY « Moltaar. auhQpl. SluiltgrU tf CTwriMy Town (7A6); Boreham Wood tf HandoK Hayes v Hsiretir Borough; Vesd Mg V WUkm a Herabsm. First DMaleiw SbrNiametsd Tn v Uxbridge; Qbdord C V StaMea Tn; Wambkj) v Layton PennMiL Seconef WilHeprCtMlIbntePeMrvHum garford Tk Hsniel I lewipswad v Eghain Tn: LoiOwriiesd v WMham Tn; Sallren Wsldan Tn v CSnvey laland: Wlvanhee Tn « Hampton. TWM DMataa AMICY V Hor- sheoi: Clapton v Harefleld UW; Epamn a Swan V Ifttosbiiry Tn,
DtaUoiw Button V Ciavasawd a N; Dor- cfieetar y Greeley Revere (7^9; HesUrwi V Sudbury TnLl6maeci Tn v Chelmetord. aHNtata Cveettent tju ¥ Bwy 7)i; Moor Groan v Granchem Tn; HHieWey Tn v Soil- hull Bor. Letoaator Uid v RC Wtawtolc 8ul- 100 CoMfisW « Oudlay Tik Bottiwell Tn v Mmaston Bon Tamwortti v Buckingham Tn. ScwSisiiM (Aideiiord Tn v Forest (Srean Rvra: Ctevodon Tn v Aenurd Tn; Rrimr 93 V SlUrigbeunie;
Mew: Rbnon v Burseou^ KlitoBrawe Alh vC&ttMrde.
IWWnWBRWCOWllUBBNASTlBAOUfc Premier Blslelen; Anield Tn v Brta Tn; HuOsiHI Tn V AeWsM Uid; LIveraedge v Tiwdder. Mattby MW « Airattiarpa Watt. OSAT mxs LBAOUta Prwmier Dta- IstoK Bristol MF V BrIdpdrt Pauttmi Rvra vCattwni.
POHTMS UACNIta Hrst OMMmXwW- Uo V Leeds (7-0)- Tseond ■'’-mum Coir- BiBv « Sundflriand (78).
AVOM IHSURANCN eOMHIMATTOHl feat DMsIom PartomouA v Brighton (7.0): TbBennam v west Ham.
Plycitouin It BalL
LSASUt OP WALISi Camws V Conwy: Nswtown V Brina Peny. Ctai ~ — ' — *. aooewdlaiN Barry Tn y Ebbw Valsc Cen- nali'9 Quay V Catnuridn TO.
SPRIRGHEATH PRINT CAPITAL LNAGUB Aaedlng v Paterbareugb (2iB. nu SENIOR CHMUNOE cm s«^ ItasI, weeandtaptayi Bohemians v St Pamela arl(7.i5).
LKAOOB OP ISELANPi w-w-if Mw- Mow! Cork C V ShHbeurna (330).
V INTSRNATKHIAL: Denmark v Scot- land (530).
VSPA U-1B C'SniP OUALIPIEHa BiBBod liB. England v ecoUand (7.4Q.
Rugby Union
MOIWKEN NAWOHAL U5AOUB fM
Wvlalom Pontypridd v Newbr^ I7i>).
Rugby League
HATIUNAL GONPEHNNCB LNAGUta Pramlto. wm Hud V HoKtob: wisao St Paaielto v MHIoni.
Hockey
REPRBSEHTATIVBi ftsadeig * Borhahlia 18.0. SoruMtgi).
Reid and Clark in Rush chase
The scMble to tbe services erf
pool’s Ian Rush IS toeat
aningtoWcome a stamp^- months after
Ins be intended to leave foe
club at tbe end of Welsh inter^ forwari
sought-after footballer m
Sunderiand are
gniess ofiScial player ^riio will celeste his 3Sth birthday in O^to^- Forest’s manager Frank Clark, having seen. Inside persistently undenningd hy the absence, of a iwoven ability; .
Rush tbe
iab his career at the City Ground-
Clarit invested £43 million m- two forwanis, Aise^s Kevin Campbell and Andrea Silenzi of Torino. last sum- mer. But now he is thougM iivdy to admit an erw « judgment over both players and sanction their sale- Rush, who is available m a free transfer, is expected to meet Clark for exploratory fonro But th^ are unlikely to be held before be has listened to the ' sales pitxrfi of Peter
iteiii, manager of tbe K^nuei>
eh^’s newcxnners next sea- son, Sunderland.
Forty-eight hours after guiding the Wearslife <dub to momotion Reid invited Rush for teite at Roker Paric, an offer he is likely to take up before foe weekend.
"I know Peter Reid well from his time at Everton," Rush said. “Yes, I have spoken to bim Sunderland are one of the clubs in cemtenr tibn. Hbwever, as I have said all airing 1 do intend to keep all my options opeiL” Sunderland’s rich owner Bob Murray has ixtaxused his manager about £10 million to sirengfoen a side that, wh^ good to domi-
nate a dlvisioa of doubtful quality, still have a light- wei^ look. Tbe dub’s diair- mart .ToT^ Featberstone has appealed to ferial business- men to help furtiner.
Reid,' before he meets Rush, win fry to sign the United States international goal- keeper Arad Friedl, who plays in Turkey with Galatasaray.
Fdedl would have joi^ Sunderland ninp months ago but for a protracted row over his work permit Blackburn Rovers’ reserve- team goalke^r Shay Given has made an Impressive (wn- trfoution to Sunderland's sea- son while on loan. Reid would like to make Given's move to the north-east permanent but he has been told the RepubUc (rf Ireland ixUematioiial is not for sale-at any mrice.
Reid is not the only ambi- tious inriri^gei* hoping to use the old-friends act in an at- tempt to secure Rush. Howard Kendall has already met Rush and offered him the post of No. 2 at Sheffield United.
Ibe li^ of clubs wanting to sign Lwerpool’s all-time lead- iz% scorer is ever expanding. Among those to have aliea^ tossed hats into the ring are Leeds, Middlesbrough, Celtic, Portsmouth, Stedte, and <dubs in the US, Australia, Singa- pore and France.
on the cards
Martin Thorpe
TEIE Premier League wants its clubs to be given a bs^ to the third round (rf foe Coca- Cola Cup. Premiership chair- men, worried by foe growing number of domestic fixtures, put forward foe idea at a meeting last Thursday and prefer it to the Football League's earlier suggestion that only Premiership twaTna involved m Europe ifoouid join the competition late.
Discussions on the new plan are due to take shortly betweeu the Prenier League’s chief executive Rick Parry and David D^.the Football League secretary. Wifo Uefe due to tate away the hiccative finrnprnn pl2u» given to foe Coca-Cola Cup winners from the ^pa^on after next, foe Foofoall League is anxious to accommodate Pre- mier League wishes rather than lose foe top teatirff frxmi foeir competitioa sltogat-Viar • Garry Plitcroft. Black- bum's £3 Tnfiitfm midfielder wte was sent oS within four minutes of his d^ut against Bverton last stonfo, has been handed an extra one-match suspension.
The signing from Manches- ter City has collected 12 book- ings this season and recently served two games of a three- mattfo ban. The octra ban means he will not play again this season.
Southampt^'s Barry Veni- son will miss Saturday’s match at Bolton. His recent i^ooklng .against United took him past the 31- point disciplinary mark and means a one-mateh ban.
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The Guardian lS:!esdayAprU 28 i996
SPORTS NEWS 15
Clicket
come on. the liringworth i^el, Mike Seiv^
England’s last ea^ decision
IKS Atherton has been given the go>iOiead .to' lead ' England into, the Qrst
part of diis samxDor's mieiiaa'
tional ftffliwm.
In a decision that iiy ia*t year’s standards coostitates indecent haste, the *^h***^*" of selectors Saymond BUng- worth announced tiiat Alhei> ton was being appointed for the three one-day hiteaiiatioih als and three Testa against Izh dia; a review fbr the half of the seascm wiU be made after that-
It means, Ittmically, that by die end of the series Atherton should have overhauled mingworth^ 31 Tests as cap- tain, and so can be regarded as more expeiienced.
After a tough winter in South Africa a humiliait ing World Cup, Atherton pre- sented a weary figure. But a break has rekindled his opt^ mism and.despite only seven
Rugby Union
wins in 29 TOsts aa naptafa, his pdsxiioh remains' gfamng. nie new sdeetSoo oammlttee would have needed UtSe con- vincing that he was the arum to ecntxnue.
Tm ■ delimited/’, -he* said yeslBcday. T did Ibd. down, but it didn't take to get •back again. Tm ftiU ofop- thnisip and bopeftally that op-
thtitcm nsm Im» ” '
7et if AttiMton is in the un- accustomed position^ start- ing sinnmer taiowhig ea- acfiy where he stan^ die same does-not appear so true of the new Wri^awa coach. David Lloyd has already crossed swords wjfii ITItng- wortti over ap point of poUey and boon f^ttccdtoooncade.
At-first llUngiMnh*B dismissal of CLoyd’s eOhrts to recmit Bcmiam to his coaching tean Clan might have a'roSe ha the fittnre but we won't be using him fiiis season’^ awtupd a ^lapdown by a man in controL la reality
lOOte ttfc*
man ^EdEhag outhis y and, .ha the ihce of criticism and a* stsai^y wtnirtfTwiwEwg cf bis power base. Tetting every- one know who is in ddirga.
mingwoclh has had a ton^ time of it ha the past IhW months. A eompetittve -l^
series was lost in one boards tail-end mayhem in Cape Town hut was -fhOowecf ly a wretched coeday series:and Weadd Cup. wfame Engjtarwrb hopelooff sn^-tt-and see stcat- egy meant fliey finished the compatitkip wldi no more
idea cd fiiair best side or how to play the limited-overs game than at fiia start.
In' fiba real world' nUng- wnlh, as the supremo eho ou^ to cany the can. wonld have faced -dtsmissal or reslg- naticn. He hu survived be- cause is wwgHA ctldEet, but he has not come through
nnscathed.
Ttaus,- having rslingiuthed his role as overlord and
rsvgted simjdy to cf sdadnrs; ha now finds hhnselfliaiidad two selectors DotTOf his choice — he is baivdy- on speaklx^ terms with (ma. David Gnveney — plBS a. boadi trim was. not his own fleet choice and a captain whose felaficnshlp with hfan fuamnat be described as close but whose own positiau has bem.ftarfified in advwraity.
On. of that he knows that ‘the new coach wanted Ua areb-crltie Botham aa a racruittoacoadihgtaam. '
- De9MB bla puff exterior, ifliugwMth is not hnpervioTis to se was ie^w^g^ by
fbe recent campalgD to oust fctm atitt certainly he has not taken Botham’s remarks UghfiTf sltoongh Botham >«>« wtnea tried to deny his own newspaper story that ha was file victim of a TCCB dirty tricks campaign to stop btm b«irtwwihig a srieetor. ago shrugged eff ah
indiseretioD by sa^ng be did
not agree wito what his ^lost hadwritiesL)
Illingworth believes UAfKatw aoQiing to otBar nowr his motivational powers extended to himself OD&, says the chairman, toe eiri^ dance is there from his brief period of captaincy. The Legend, he would get
bored. Lloyd on the other hand thinks that Botham could contribute a great deal.
advice in par- ticular to enthusiasm.
Either may be ri^it but that is not toe isane. What really matters is wbetoer it is
fair that IWwjjinrHi — hand^
OB diainnan or not — should be dictating to an England
coach trying to establish own style what tools he ■>wni/? flap K4« trade.
Wbetoer personal an- tips thy tbculd evai be sus- peetad of overriding what might be best fbr the team.
mingworto’s terms of refbr^ ence, according to the TCCB
chief executive Alan Smith, have nvertsd to precisely those — still wide-ranging — that existed in 19M when be first became chairman of .selectors. But if, in his profes- sional judgment Uc^ felt that Qr anyone else,
would be an asset in his prep- aration of the team, then surely he should be allowed to put his judgment on the line:.
Uoyd is an enthuslastie, fo- cused and dedicated coach. Be admits he has ambitimi and, on a we-seasen contract only. Is keen to make an im- pression. He took the job be- lieving in toe coach’s ri^ to select his associates ai^ yet already it seems be has had his hands tied.
Peter Lever and John Bdridi. DUngworto appoint- ments both last year, remain bowling aiMt batting coach respectively. While Lloyd may well agree they are valu- able tf he disagrees wants to dispense with their
Atherton . . - reappointed
services that should be in his remit. To whom, incidental^', are they responsible? Despite some outward statements of unity, it remains an nnsatis- fact^' state of afbirs.
After UUngworto’s Satur- day rejection of Botham, Lilt'd was at pains to point out that toe selectors’ week- end toget^ at Chelmsford had been "brilliant’ — al- toou^ he did say that at one point in their deliberations he thou^t they might need "a go^ cuts man”.
If Lloyd thinks that the fitting is over and he can op- erate comfortably in his own sphere of influence, he may weD be in for a nasty shock. The bell has not even sounded for round two.
RFU faces the inevitable on pay-per-view
Robert Annolrong
Agrowing number cf club administrators be- Deve that pay-pervlew television, especially for European CtQ> games, must be introdaced to hdp provide the income to pay play^ and develop their grounds in the professional era. - The Rugby Eootball Union, which in theory would like to see the terrestrial duumels retain a key cole in transmit- tlng top fixtures, will inevita- bly be forced to go along with pay-per-vi^ with BSkyB to fund a new multi-million pound contract But even so, when toe RFU today spells out tts pcdlcy on the renewal <if TV cuuttacts. It is a racing certainty fiaat nffiriais will pilay down of . ignore toe locnning prospect ofpay-per-view.
Supporteia pay a top price
of S3S to attend interaatiomds at Twickenham and from £7 to £12 at toe gats to watch dub games but so fer fiieir TV viewii^ a( Five Natiems Cbampiom^p matches and Courage league fixtures has been free, apart from basic rental and lichee fees. '
All that is set to change in the second half of toe l^neties when Sky devekms toe same financial .grip on intend- tiem^ Bnrqpeen and domes- tic rugby toat it has exerted since over Premiership soccer. To date Sky has fi> cosed <m the sale of satellite dishes, restoicting pay-per- view to' toe recent Bruno- Tyson fl^t. but that low-key strategy is certain to be reviewed next year when fresh rugby union and soccer contracts are negotiated.
Truly serious money can be raised to toe annual sala- ries of Bci^ind’s tcg>; 300 play- ers, ranging frnm £15.000 to £60,000, only by gotog directly to the TV consumer and ask- ing htm or her to pay a good deal more. . .
As one cash-strapped TigagHo One chairman pifr it recently: “Professionalism mMtig -toe da^ of cheap rugby for supporters, wbefbsr -they are in toe'stand or their fevourite armchair, are ovm*. In order to survive clubs win have to luovide flie type of rugby peof^ wfil pay extra to wafrto”
However, the leading Five NatUms matches — _toose in- volving igrigiand oT France — are unlikely to . escape the costly embrace cf pay-per- view either. The RFlTs detei> mlnatlon to'ne^stiate its own TV dwi outside the remit cf toe Ftve Nations commlttM rests- on toe imdeniaUe xm^'
mica that ft commands 70 par cent of the British TV andi- 300,000 of whom rega- larly epidy fbr tickets to every
<4taTnfriftTi«>iip matrh jdayod at Twickenham'.
Clearly a new TV package that Indkided, say. toe de- layed transmission of Five Nations by terres- trial and pay-per-
view for live trans-
TniftBton of fiir same game would have oansidmuhle ap- peal to toe RFU.
Naturally uhion negotia- tors do not want to be seen clobbering the o(msaitier/siq;>- pcFtsr at tills ddicate stage whm the riiamn between the clubs Twidceitiiam has widened dramatically.. Yet once a camxaohiiae has been reached, rugby^s whe^er- deideis: wUF put tit^ 'heads togetiia: lor idito and country and go fra: toe last poimd in every ptnrtBi'apoekst.
T£ 'the Bafepean charmdb
Canal Plus and Telepui, which win start riuugmg fbr Fcendb and BaUxn league soc- cer matdiee later tiais year, ooDStltnte a. -raSadds yard- sUdk, tiie cost to tile axmehair fenhetetooinia.be between £6
ajUfi £9 a WM**»*- . ' ' •
It is hkely tiiat Rngiand in- tvnatiimals at Twickenham
against, say, France or New wlR cost axound £U on pay-per-view, wlto games against the .Celtic nations sealing down to £9. Given tiiat tbe great majority of rugby
union supporten fell into tile desirable ABC advertising categories, there should be lit- tle difficulty in persuading fhflfTi to pay 19^ especially when ground admission charges rise toaxply- The pawl ofpay-per-view to Qual- ity advwtisers is selfevident. .
Even so, and the
Learie Ottt chibs desperately need to inuaove the quality of their isroduct if they intend to 8eH themselves. m The players' trade union, toe Rugby Unkm Playms' Associatton, has entered the cUspute between Twickenham
anH clubs OV6T toe fiituie of the game and TV deals. With the RFU and the clubs stalled in .thetr discnssla^ the wTiinn wants talks wltfa both and wUL meet the RFU chaixTi^^ ' Chris Brittle tomoriow.
Rugby teagu^
England A vThe Rest
Thorpe
steals
scene
Rari Weawar wl Chahniioid
This audition of a match .has proved aomaianiig of a dla^ prtiiitiiMMit ftKfr tiiA caating directors of EngUah cricket; yesterday Graham Thorpe dominated pbw like a leading mail nmriUingto share the stage with lesaa* tiiespians.
The selectors know C3KW^ ahooit Thorpe; he le prbbaldy one of cmjy five players--" along with BHriiadl Atheriim, Gxweme Hick,- Jack Bnaaell and Dambdc Cork — sure of Ms place whmi the-latemiiBim- ^•«|p^tmf Viiaii start nest
He. 'had a ffisappotaiEtfaw Teat aeriea a^durt South Africa. BcoEfa« 184 runs In eiirirt inningB with a tnOr tary fifty,- hut partially mended Ua reputatlOD with
a solid Wdwld Cup. He etUl has arespectsfclelhet.aver- age of 40.97 from 26 nmtdiee and his lefthand- ednesa and belUgrtvnce are valnalde bonuees.
One crttldLsm has beesa life hmUttty to oif ^ He
has reached fldfty 17 timea hut has only two cen-
taried. Teaterday tae'soored an unbeaten 141, athough he should have perished at 7-4 whan Bd Glddlns touppedhim at long 1^ off Umldnnton.
He batted for almost five hours, frtced-220 balls and Ut :19 firars and a six. It was file ondy tdg hmlngs of the match alfiiough it did not prwvant England A's cmnlbrtable win ovw The Best by al^ wickets with a day and a Ut to spare.
Muntou,. who was voted iwMii of the "»■*** fiir his seven wickets and 84 runs, Glddtns and Glen Chappie all their m5Fiw¥*"** In fiifa Test trial but fttnu toe . selectors' pobit of view per- haps file , most interesting aspect was file captstney of Niasaer Hussain.
Atherton's reappoint- ment as England captain yesterday was made easier ' by the shortage of realistic
Salfebmypain. . . Graham ThorpeedgestheEnglandAleg-bnekbowlerJiurtshortoffirstsUp photograph; tom jneoNs
attemattves. Hussain must now be vlewad as a possible rival when the Job comes for dtoensaion again in mldanmmwr.
Hie greatly impressed hi PsLkfeten last winter; when his wwfiaiMi A Site were TT¥i>M«afOTi tiitHI ' fha final' <me-d^ match. At Sssex
last seae<« his conlrlbutlon to tbe rite as Paul Pri- chard’s vlce-captaln was considaubfe.
David Lloyd, the new England coeto, is clearly Impressed. “The A site did really in fills match. They played very much as a team, tight-knit and
Dwyer determined not to be elbovwedeut of Bulls’ filial
Paul Fimiatd.nlr
Bernard, dwter, vtoo damaged an elbow at .Wigan- <m Friday, remains Bradferd BoBs^ nutin iojuxy -wurty as they prepsre'fbr Sat- otday's SQk ChaSeoge
Cup final againrt St&lens at Wmnbley. . you wouM hirne to hit bint vfith a crow- bar to prevait him iSaylng,'* the ooeto wri*”, -SDaxtojOkid
'Dw^i a verratib Jbeward whocan jday enywh^ hi.fita' Tumit,' was In' too Befens rfiiRa btetai by^\9fgan lit fha i2B9-and 1991 finals. Hs was
one of tbree pilfers off-loaded
to Bradford last .NdvBBb^ wtaen- Paul Novdove? rigned f!^' Saints In a . record deal worth £500,00a The otiier two. Sonny 'Nickle. and .Pa^ Lbdghhh,- are In a iBman
sqpad nam^yeetorday. . -
: Three' definite- absentees axe-wthe 'ineligible. James' Lev^-.^;hookar . signed
■ ' aleeds^Glto.^lhm]hl80Q, ’Aasfi'riten .sqr^-hatf
from Batley.and Steve McNa- mara. toe torward recruited fromBoU.
Leeds yesterday oonfiniied the signing of Claxk, the
2S-year-old New Zealand half- back who has played previ- ou^ fbr Bun KR and Scar- boroti^ Pirates. Clark, ^10
joins Leeds Oa'a twoyear 00b- tract from Counties-ldana- kau».has played ei^ times for New Zealand.
Leeds, who collected their first Super League points against Rhaffleid on Sunday, need an the refaiflyoRmeats 1h^ can gto Another recent Elvn acqtUritioii, Nathan Pic- chi, didocried 'his toouMar on hfe debut agriset Shrifield and may miss six wetos. •
- Tony Smifh, the SPyearold yoonger brofiier of Bradford's coach, has signed for Woridngtom Os %tih peimit fe. stin to be.sorted cnxt but Town 'hope he wiU make his drimt irt home agaihri Hklifex on May 6 witii Brad Nrim, --fbe' former '.Panamatta for- ward, who. fe expected to ar- s^tomoiTow.
Sailing
Call for referees as rogue sailors loose anarchy on the high seas
A flagrant disregard for the lutemeLtloiial Yacht Radng Rules by some competitors hare, tocludbig several Instances of cheat- ing, has maxTed- fiie Se- malne Qlympigae and higb- U^rted the firing tide of indisdpliiae <m tbe water. With 'ywlerday’s raring because of high wfnte, attentioa was fo- cused on the probkm and Britain’s team manager xsugn Mcln^re said be been appeUed by wfaat he hadseen.
On Sunday two French 470S flftlHded at a taming nuiriC, an hirident which de- manted that one should have taken a peuidty' tom or protest, but bcrtii fesiored toe tnfitegeaient. An Ital- ian Soling, whose skljpper. was warned at the recent world championship' for gross mfeeoDdiMt, hit two of fbe tum^ marks and con- tbxoed raring. •
The lax attitude to the rules displayed by some sailors >«»■ been 'blamed cm the increased pressure to snccead, particnlarly on younger competitors, and the lateusiflcation of uumpefltlcBi.
Akmg with many of his fellow managen, Mcbityte believes tbe policy of self- pioUcing, with the emus on
competitors to olwerve fiie regulations, should be efaimged as the rules are being increasing ignored.
There is general support for tbe introduction <ff ref- erees who could insist on pmalties for infrlngemaiits being enforced. This would Involve several officials along the course and not juri at tnratog marks.
Before raring began, the British Jim Salton-
staU told hfe tetei that members involved in pro- tests would receive frill sup- port However, competitors are reluctant to lodge pro- tests because of the time they take.
together, ft was as If they were carrying on from where they left off in Pakistan.'*
Only Thorpe threatened to take this match into the fourth day. Mike Wafidn- 900, who produced a couple of lavish off-drives against Ian Salisbury, was the only
Sport in brief
Motor racing
Audi’s appeal against frank Piely’te disqualz&atlaii fhosn Sunday's fbmto round of the RAC Touring Car Cbampi^ toip at founds Bafrto wffi'be beard oa Monday or Wednes- day next week.
The VauxbaQ team pro- tested about tile Audi’s sus- pension system. But Dr Wolf- gang TTiiriA, head of Audi Sport said yesterday: ‘The suspension on tbe Audi A4 Quattro was passed legal by the FIA 19 months ago mad we liave not changed aztyfhhig. We have atoed the FIA to Paris to confixm in writing our car’s legality.’’
Tennis
Sam Smith won a stogies on her Fed Cpp debut but Britain ware beaten 2-1 by Blelarus to their <g>mimg pool matrih at La Manga yesterday. She beat Tatiana Ignatieva 8-2. 8-3 to put fodtain ahead bnt Natalia Zvereva, tite world No. 21, then overcame Clare Wood and helped Ignatieva beat Wood and Valda Lake.
Ice hockey
’Viktor TIkhooov, the wmld’s most successful coach, was
player to provide Mm with meaningfril company.
The were all out for 253, leaving England A to get 60 to win. Tbe only dis- appointment fbr Hussain was that he was out just two runs shewt of victory, bowled off-stump as he played forward.
fired yesterday by CSKA Mos- cow tax the otters of Russia’s defence minister Pavel Gra- chev. Tikhonov ted the army team to 12 successive Soviet League titles stmting in 1978 and enachad tbe Soviet team to three Olympic ^d medals and eight world titles.
Athletics
Modahi
abuses
official
Duncan Haeluv
Diane modahl couid be the subject <f a fresh investigation by tbe British Athletic Federation after an astonishing public .attack on one of the officials who suspended her.
Competilors finishing the London Marathon watched In amazement as Modahl shouted abuse at Joslyn Hcvte-Smith in the baggage area of Sunday^ race before being led away by her hus- band VicentP.
“She really laid Into Joe- lyn.” sail! one onlooker. “She clearly believes that Joslyn had quite a lot to do with what happened to her.’’
It was the first time Modahl had met Hoyte-Smith since the latter was on toe four- member BAF panel which suspended the former Com- monwealth 800 metres cham- pion for Ibur years in Decem- ber 19M after she had tested positive for testosterone at a meeting in Lisbon in June that year. Tbe decision was reversed seven months later after Modahl presented new evidence, and she was offi- cially clesued all of doping al- legations by the International Amateur Athletic Fbderation four weeks ago.
Modahl’s confrontation with Hoyte-Smith, who was attending Sunday’s race in her capacity as the BAPs in- competition drug-testing rifl- cial, ended when one of her colleagues stepped In to break it up. Modahl then spent sev- eral minutes regaining her composure before she. her husband and her daughter tmnni left to watch the end of the race in whidi Domingos Casl^ the Portuguese run- ner Vicente Modahl repre- sents, wte competing.
‘The people on that panel have shown no remorse,” said Modahl’s husband. “In fact they have shown just the pppoisite.’’
The incident comes at a sensitive time in relations be- tween Modahl .-^nH Qm BAF. She is currently suing it for £480.000 fbr damages and loss of earnings after being forced out Gf Oie sport for 19 months. That will not stop it taking action against Modahl if necessary.
Hoyte-Smith refused to comment but Tony Weird, tbe BAF spokesman, said: “UJos- lyn complains, then we would obvious^ have to look into tbe situation.
"A lot of peqpte are ^unpa- thetic to Diane but to start abusing members of the panel, who after all were only carrying out the rules of the lAAF, is counterproductive. Diane is really going to have to overcome this bitterness if she is going to qualify and do well at this year's Olyzuidcs."
Britain’s marathon setec- tors will finalise the team for Atlanta on Saturday morning. The London race did not make the picture much clearer, wltii Britain's top fin- isher in the men’s race, the tiiird-placed Paul Evans, still undecided about whether he wants run the maratbem or iAoOD metres.
ff Evans accepts a place alongside the pre-selected Peter Whitehead and Richard Nenirkar, he will be commit- ted to the longer distance. ‘*!t doesn't matter if he wins the 10,000 metres trial; once he has decided to do the mara- thon he cannot do anytiiii^ else,'' said Ward.
There are no doubts in Liz McColgan’s mind. She has been installed as 3-1 fevourite for the Olympic gold medal by bookmakers after her London victory. Tbe Scot promised yesterday tiiat she will not employ the same tactics as on Sunday, when she allowed three runners to open a gap which at one point stretched to more than two mtoutes. “They could easily have geme on to win.” she admitted. “I wemt allow it to happen to the Olympics."
A record 26,761 runners fin- ished on Sunday and, despite the heat, under one per cent c€ tbe starters dxtmi^ out ‘That is an absolutely stag- gering statistic,” said Alan Storey, tbe race manager.
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Taesday April 23 1996
Monarchs lose their head, page 1 3 Modahl back in trouble, page 15
England play three-card trick, page 1 4 Century for Thorpe, page 15
SporisGuardism
^ A READY TO RING IN THE NEW AS PAUL GASCOIGNE GIVES HIS VOTE TO THE OLD
Noddle to get England offer
Chelsea to lose manager by July
Martin Thorpe
Glenn hoddle is almost certain to be oBbr^ the job of England man- ager next month because the Football Associa- tion has decided to approach only someone it is cert^ will accept.
"There are important people who have not been ap- proached at all l^cause the object is to have a ^t choice and succeed in getting him rather than go through a list of names and be rebuffed.’' said a senior FA insider yes- terday. **There are one or two speciflc ideas being taken through to see if an end result can be reached. In that respect people have been ap- proached and we are hopii^ to get a 'yes' first time."
With Kevin Keegan. Gerry Francis and Bryan Robson having firmly turned down the chance to manage Eng- land. Hoddle emer^ as die most credible candidate who both wants the job and is out of contract wi& his' club — i Chelsea — this summer.
*'We need to have someone installed at the earliest poss- ible moment" the in- sider. “certai^y rea^ to take . over on July 1, whi& would I leave two months for the new ! man before En^and’s first World Cup qualifier."
Hoddifi’s contract at Chelsea ' is understood to run out on June 30. He is delaying sign- ing a new one because of un-
certainty over financing at the club but it also leaves him free to taiae the England job, whldz he is b^eved to covet
Hoddle has a growing repu- tation for being adventurous and forward-thinking in his tactics and coaching. But there is just a chance the FA sub-committee charged with finriing the new England man- ager may feel he is too inexpe- rienced and not yet sueees^Ul enough to warrant the job.
In which case tt will turn to an older man such as the for- mer manager Bobby Robson, who is out of contract this summer at Porto. The Eng- land coach Teiry Venabl^ has said be thiwiM the .job would best suit an older man.
The FA insider added that the sub-committee has no thoughts of ggiriwg Venables to stay on after the European Championship and that there was surprise at recent stories suggest^ he would be asked.
Venable's decision to quft after Euro *96 was based on his pending court cases and what he saw as a reluctance by the international commit- tee to renew his contract
But said the FA source: "Nobody expressed a view then fiiat his contract should not be tmiewed. Trying to find a replacement for some- one everyone was hapipy with was the last thing we wanted.
"All that was said to Terry , was that because he had not I proved himself in any com- petitive matr»hAg fyf Bwglawri and because the new contract had been portrayed as a fore- gone conclusion in the press, some members of the Interna- tional committee wanted to discuss Itfirst
"Terry interpreted that as a snub, which was totally incor- rect There was no doubtihat later in January or February, Terry’s contract would have b^n renewed. He had said it was the ultimate job, one he had always wanted. It was surixislng to see him throw it away so easily. But though it was hardly what was wanted. It bad to be accepted and a new coach sought"
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Richard Williams
F THERE woe no tears, nei&er was there any doubtihat Panl Gas-
Bosom baddies . . .Gascoigne and Venables oOermntnal support at BlshamAbb^ yesterday
World news
Atherton captain against india
England yesterday reappoioted SQfce A&
delivered
to your door.
CZreappoioted SQfce Ath- erton as cricket captain for the first of the
summer.
The 28-year-dld LancU' shire ppmier will oversee the tfapM one-day interna- tionals and three Tests against India.
Although the captaincy for the subsequent series against Pakistan has been 1^ open. Athertmi said he did not regard titut as a problem and announced hiTHMif to beln
charge against India.
“I feel full of running and re&esZied.'* lie said. **77ie World Cop was very hard and it’s been a long winter for everyone. We h^'a bad World Cup bat I think the damage was done before i that r still feel confident I I can get the best ont of file : players.**
England’s new coach i Da^ Lh^ said: "tt took 08 less than 30 seconds to reappoint Atiiers. Then we jost had to get it rubber- : I stamped by Dennis SUk.’^
Mace Solveir, page tg
oigaged by a qnestioii about hiscoach’sfuture.
"A oouEde of file lads rang me up whoi Terry got the iob , taiowing Td waned wifii him, to ask me what be was like. I aaid, •Vmi’h love him right away.' And they did."
He was talking at Bisham Abbey yesterday, still damp from a driz^ training sesr Sian aboot his fitness, his dis- eiidimuT recc^ his role wifiiin file Bn^and side and. most signifieanfiy. Terry Ven- aUi^s impending departure.
From long sxperienoe, Gas- coigne knows bow to give a prooc confnrcnco ifiiattt wants withont giving any- thing away. Bat his words be- came noficeab^ more ^onta- ueoos sohjeet of the
coacihcameup
"1 wasgafied wbenl beard about it " he said. "I thou^t it was a real shame. A lot of fim playms bo]^ it doesn't bap- pen. He’s given them some- fiilng thatth^ could benefit from in the lo^ run. He’s lirmp bD sorts of things. JBe's brou^infiMir orlive or six 17-yearolds. We never had
fhntrhaiw *
Ajad indeed fiiere had been a fresh face talti^ part in the mornings rootines. In among the stars was the slightframe of Jody Morris, a 17-year-ald midfielder who is on ChelBea’s books and attends the FA School at LilleshalL
"IFsthe kids wfao’re 14 and 15 now who are going to bene- fit from what Venneia has done," Gascoigne cpzituHiBd. "And he’s done a lot "
As a coach. Venables has his weaknesses. No longer does he show the originadity orfiie picl^pocfcef 5 instinct for alefiial set-pieceplay that marked his early years wifii Crystal Palace and QJPR, ifiiicb suggests that the big Job may have pome 10 years too late. He has been accused of Gxoayism. And his England' sides rarely reflect the ethnic balance of today’s prcd^ sional foofbaB (alfiioagh. with Ehiogu, Campbell, Sinclair, Ince and CoU^ore on the
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So what is tt about him that ImprKses the players? He Is flnen* in their language, of course. He looks the players in the eye. He knows their se- crets— their professional se- crets. that is. They know that he knows how hart their job is. And be never, ever critl- ci^ them in public.
Gascoigne’s response to that question was instanta- neoos. *Tf s respecL He knows what he’s about He knows bow football should be played. Thelads concentrate when he’s talking. They listen to every word. And be tries different filings."
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the reason the coach's tactical si^tch had not borne fruit was because he hlms^had missed a good scoring chance.
"If file FA would say, ‘Right here’saftve-year contract' I think he would accept it" Gascoigne vmitored. "But fiiey haven’t yet. I think he should be around for the next 10 years. Even if 1 wasn't in the squad, fimt’s how Td fael.
‘The players believe the FA isn't wholly behind him. and I can’t aee file reason why . The public are behind him, the players aia behi]^ him.' you lot the media, have been good to him. And if we don't keep him, somebody else will snap
hfm np."
"niaf s very nice," Vena- bles reponded when Gas- coigne’s words were related to him a faw minutes later. He didn’t want to elaborate, and claimed to have been unaware of file {dayers' wish fiiat he should stay. 'Tve not dis- cussed it with them," he aaid. "Ifs lovely to have that sup- port When I have to cut the squad down to 19 outfield play- ers. I might not be so popular."
There was always a suspi- cion that Venahles's origtoal announcement was a way of takiz2g the poressureoff himself in the run-up to the European cbampiODShip, leaving the way open for a chimge of mind. That he said yesterday, is out of his hands. And it wontheppen, given the mind- set of the FA’S international committee. Nor should it given the state of his legal entanglements.
But it was interesting, for a faw minutes yesterday morn- ing, to hear a footballer spe^ file heart with passion, seldom happens. Impressive when it does.
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